2023-09-10 - Can you say HOT HOT HOT

We stayed at Rock Hall for a couple more days.  Did not go into shore - as we diagnosed issue with our outboard.  Our outboard prop hub is slipping, so we can not go faster than a putt putt, or prop hub fails, and just spins without moving the boat.  Worried about it failing completely, we did not want to make the long trip to land, and find we had to row our way back.   

In addition, it got HOT.  Temperatures in the high 90's, and with humidity the "feels like" temperature was up to 112 one day.  In addition, NO wind.

91 degrees inside the boat, plus humidity.  Luckily did not see above 91.

So we stayed on the boat, did miscellaneous small projects in the morning, but by lunch we were done, and spent the rest of the day, trying to stay cool in the shade, in front of a fan.   

Most the boats left the anchorage on Labor Day, so it was quiet again except for the crop duster flying overhead most the day - but that was fun to watch.

We did modify our boom vang, to give a little more support to the boom.  Dean had to customize some parts.

Kris jumped on the kayak, and cleaned the boat waterline.  Laying on the kayak between the two hulls was nice and cool.

We moved over to Rock Creek, near Baltimore in preparation for Kris to fly out.  Still HOT, so not much going on.

We had planned to walk to town on Thursday, as needed to pick up some Amazon orders, and get groceries for Dean.  Luckily a nice man at the marina where we left the dink offered us a ride, got to love the boating community.  We went to Ace Hardware, picked up our Amazon orders, had a nice lunch at Five Guys and got groceries at Safeway.   

No free ride back so we walked 2.7 miles back in 95 degree heat along the hot road in the middle of the day, hauling back our purchases.  Feel sorry for us yet :)    A very sweaty walk, we both took cold showers when we got back.

One of the purchases was a new prop for the dinghy.  You can see the old one is quite worn, the new one is 3 blades but we can still get up and plane.  We will be getting a new outboard in a month and selling the old one but it certainly could not sell in the non-running condition.

Old Outboard prop

New prop installed

On Friday afternoon, Ed and Cathy on What If came into the anchorage for a visit.  We had them over for pizza.  Nice visit - it was hot, but we did get some cooling breeze in the cockpit.

Relaxing in the heat after dinner - notice we even have a portable fan outside to help beat the heat

Dean and Ed solving world problems, just the important ones

Saturday, Dean took Kris to a boat ramp nearby, so she could catch an Uber to the airport for her flight to Boise, Idaho.  Which turned into a convoluted trip.  Kris got to the airport ahead of time, they loaded the plane ahead of time and then things went sideways.  The plane then was unloaded because of weather.  The plane was suppose to take off at 3pm but due to weather they now said 8pm which would not allow making the connection in Minneapolis to Boise.  Kris was reschedule to fly to Atlanta and catch a flight from Atlanta to Boise on Sunday.  Needless to say Kris did not have a smooth trip.