Hard Tuesday

Another great day in paradise. Today I cut the heads off of hundreds of screws. All the carpet on the boat is being replaced and the tack strips used along the edges have to be screwed down because the floor is aluminum. They don’t come back out the next time you need to carpet. Most of the screws are stainless steel and strong as heck. We went through several cut off wheels on dremel tools and drills. What fun.

I finally got a ride to the drug store today after missing the trip to Wal Mart last night. I bought some much needed soap and a bunch of snacks. I need a bunch of other stuff but I’ll have to wait until the next Wally World trip.

On the road back from the store, the captain said he bought me something. I looked in the bag and it was a replacement quart of RED paint for the one I spilled. Lucky me got to do a lot more red painting in the afternoon. I missed some previous gas pipes because they were behind a bunch of machinery. No excuse, I had to just reach back there and paint them anyway. What a joy but it got worse. I had to crawl down into the engine room in the pontoon again and paint a dual fuel filter down there. That was a joy. Getting materials like rags, Gunk, paint brush and paint down the shaft is a challenge in itself. I loaded my pockets and then put some of the stuff on an angle iron wall and moved it as I descended. The darn filters were behind the engine so I had to crawl over all kinds of pipes, tubes and other dangerous items to reach the filter. I had no room to work but I did the best I could.

We had to remove all of the oil and flammable liquiuds from the boat. Apparantly the coast guard doesn’t allow this stuff. Strange to think you can’t have oil on board. We must have removed 50 or more gallons of oil. They all go to storage and then come back apparently later. I’m not really sure what was going on, I just do what I’m told.

Later in the day they started power washing the dive deck. I’m not really sure why at this point since there are still several more dirty jobs to do so it will get dirty again. Oh well, I’m sure there is some reason for all of this but they sure don’t tell us what is going on. The general lack of communications is pretty crazy.

Can you tell – I’M HAVING FUN!