I took a walk down to the marina office yesterday. I had two packages waiting for me. One was a 1 TB external hard drive that I needed so I could offload 368 GB of photos from my laptop’s 500 GB hard drive. The other package contained…
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This Ain’t Good
Yesterday was a wonderful day. Pam and I took a drive to Beaufort, South Carolina to visit Dan and Pat on Iron Hore (the H is silent) and Gil and Hope on Sweet Surrender, Isle of Hope refugees like us. We enjoyed reliving old times and made…
Boats Boats and More Boats
Yesterday started with a pleasant surprise. Fellow Isle of Hope refugee Frank on Tailhook called. He left Isle of Hope Marina for good and is taking his boat to the Tenn-Tom, and stopped at Brunswick for the night. We had a chance to …
Sea Foam on Jekyll
Pam and I spent most of yesterday packing up our belongings on the boat and moving them to our storage unit in preparation of our move off Drift Away and back to upstate New York. But we decided to take the dogs to the driftwood beach on Jekyll I…
We Moved Drift Away!
Yep, we finally moved Drift Away. We fired up the big diesels and moved sideways 20 feet. We needed to dock port side instead of starboard so we could launch the Whaler, which lives on Drift Away’s roof. It can only launch from the starboar…
Turn It Off! Turn It Off! Turn It Off!
Yesterday was Pamela’s last day working for Belk department store. She really liked working there, and they liked having her. But we’re getting ready for our move north for the season (or maybe forever if Drift Away sells) and Pam wants som…
Revenge of the Onan MDJE Generator
I’ve told you before that I can be a real dummy. I just don’t know where my head is sometimes. Let me give you an example. Yesterday, I was looking for my cell phone and couldn’t find it. In my search, I found Pam’s. So I…
The Onan MDJE Strikes Back
Sometimes I can be a real dumbass. That’s just to set the tone.So I was back dealing with the small MDJE Onan generator’s overheating problem yesterday. I figured that I could flush the entire cooling system by pulling the two hoses off the…
The Onan MDJE is Putting Up a Fight
Yep. I’m still battling with the Onan MDJE generator. I pulled off the heat exchanger and found that it was clogged with scale. After soaking it in a solution of vinegar and West Marine toilet bowl cleaner, I got it unclogged and pretty goo…
Onan Generator Continued
Drift Away’s little 7 1/2 KW generator runs like a top, but has an overheating issue. You regular readers will recall that I tried the easy stuff, replacing the radiator cap and testing the thermostat. On to the next step.I read the Onan Ma…
