Departure!

Interesting that there isn't enough connectivity to upload now. I noticed that connectivity is better during daylight hours. I'll try tomorrow.

Good day today. Jackie and Wayne are settled in.

The work Swift Marine did on the hills and teak is amazing. The deck leaves a little to be desired but overall the boat is now properly presentable.

I'm close to calling it a night. I need to get up at 7 as we are departing at 8 to make the shallowest section of our journey at high tide. It's only 38 miles.

Fluid checks are already done.

The Swift Marine guys have been here all morning and are working away on the deck and teak.

There was some water intrusion into the aft cabin and there are some new stains on the bed from the work on the steering. I've put the steering cover back on and vacuumed the berth as well as I can. I think I should get the mattress recovered at some point.

I still need to figure out what to do about sheets and blankets.

Alex fixed the steering and the windlass yesterday. He showed me some wiring he found and fixed that had gotten hot.

He also said the check valves on the bilge pumps near the companionway are not working so water flows back down. I should see about getting some proper diaphragm pumps.

The new System76 Lemur laptop is working out much better than I could have hoped. For the first time on one of these trips I'm getting real work done.

I hadn't realized what a liability MaxOS is for development. That MacBook Air really wasn't the right machine. I should have done this years ago.

It's very strange how the app behaves differently on longer trips than it does when just going between College Park and Silver Spring, which is my usual test run to and from McGinty's. There it works perfectly.

I will have to do more testing but I found a nasty bug having to do with misunderstanding a very minute detail in how the framework I use works. (Aliasing an injection token causes new instances to be created instead of reusing the existing one. So unbelnownst to me, multiple instances of the geolocation service we're getting created depending on the path through the software. How it ever worked is beyond me.)

And this post is a test to see if I have fixed it correctly.

My new System76 Lemur Pro development laptop.

40gigs of RAM. 4TB SSD. Core i7 with 10 cores.

It is significantly faster than my old monster workstation. Crazy.

It was a quick shop. We won't starve.

Showers have passed through.Thr sun is out.