Goin' South... At Last!

Today we finally are really headed South! We rose early this morning, hosed the Brunswick Birdshit off our decks, and loaded our scooters aboard. (See pics below) We got underway about 10:30 am, and ran for about 6 hours and 45 minutes south, anchoring in Alligator Creek for the night.



I'm including pics of some of the things we accomplished while in Brunswick...
We got the fybridge Deck Box wired, ran a new water line, so our icemaker and drinks fridge are now operational on the flybridge. This gives us the ability to have cold drinks and ice on the flybridge without having to run up and down the ladder to the galley.


I finally figured out how to hang the doors on the aft deck washer/dryer enclosure. Now we can relax on the aft deck without feeling we are in a laundry room!

We purchased and installed this major money, time and labor-saving device in the engine room. It is an automatic oil change system, which allows us to change the oil in both main engines and both generator engines at the touch of a button. I can select the engine I want to change, and whoosh! the old oil is sucked out and into a drum, and then replace it with new, fresh oil by reversing the flow to the selected engine. Since diesel engines require fresh oil at 150-hour intervals, this is a huge labor savings. If I took my boat to a yard to have the oil changed, they would charge me $80 per hour to do this, plus the cost of oil and filters. By doing this job myself, I will save about $600 per oil change!


Tomorrow evening, we will anchored off the old fort in St. Augustine, Florida!