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Still in Anacortes

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 We had certainly hoped to be on the water heading into BC by now.  As always there is a lot to do to get ready for the season after a cold winter on the hard.  We started with a water leak that flooded the bilge.  Found out we had a cracked accumulator.  Fred just removed it from the line.  Then we tried to get our Ocens email up and running. The Norton Safelock is blocking it. For those of you that know our email addresses, use them.  We went to Costco with a lot of heavy stuff to load onto the boat. Since the boat is on blocks high off the ground we thought we would use the davit to load supplies into the cockpit.  We were halfway done when the davit would extend but not retract. After studying the manual and  internet  search Fred decided we needed a new solenoid.  We played hell trying to find the correct ones for a 21 year old boat.  Finally Amazon came to the rescue.  There has been a water leak that has rusted one ...