It was a leisurely ride to Sarasota this morning. The houses along the waterway got bigger the closer we got. For reference, the homes were White House sized about halfway here.
Slip prices are high. For Nellie it would be around $130/night. Fortunately Sarasota has a mooring field. At $25/night, which includes use of a dinghy dock, showers, and WiFi it's much more reasonable. What we don't get is electric. But even in Nellie's crippled state, it's hard to justify $105 for electric. So, to conserve power the refrigerator is now an icebox. An 8lb block was $4 which drops the net savings to $101/night. Hmm, a 240W solar panel would be really useful about now.
Got two things repaired today. A little WD-40 on the head's anti-siphon valve seems to have stopped its small leak. Yes, I know I claimed to have fixed this very same valve yesterday. But yesterday's leak was a big one. Tomorrow I'll probably be discussing how I fixed the small drip from the valve. The second repair is my favorite kind. The kind that fix themselves, which is exactly what the main bilge's float switch did today. It seems enough bilge water sloshed over the float to clear whatever was sticking. That's good news. The bad news is all the water that's in the bilge; it's getting by the dripless packing gland. The gland is dripless alright; I couldn't see a single drip from the solid stream of water coming in!
12nm today and 74nm total. DBH
