Nancy is returning home (to the boat) this morning. Just learned her connection from Houston has been delayed an hour. I'm really looking forward to her being back.

While she was gone, after my return from FL, I installed our new (used) kitchen sink and picked up our reupholstered salon cushions. Nancy picked out the fabric, with my approval of course, and I think they really look very nice. We had a 5" foam placed in the bottoms and they really look comfortable.

The sinks aren't really gold, that's just the light reflecting and a bad photographer.

Yesterday was another miserable, hot and humid day here in Savannah. Although our rudder has been here since Monday, they seem to find more pressing issues to work on than it. They seem to feel they need to take care of all their Hinckley Yacht customers before than can get to our lowly Tumbleweed Two.

I also managed to find time yesterday to re-patch the dinghy, since it was still leaking. I sent the outboard off for a carburetor rebuild while in FL and hope to have it back soon.

I learned yesterday, that after all this time, it may be our Echo Charger causing problems with the windlass battery. The marina services electrician came on board and deduced it to be the problem. I had described the problem we are having to a technician at the charger manufacturing company once before and was told, "no, the charger is good - you have a battery problem". I called them again yesterday, got a different tech, told him the same story. He said. "Absolutely, the charger is bad". Customer service today makes me wonder how many companies stay in business!!

Well, hopefully, before too long, I'll be able to start reporting on our northerly progress again.