Monday - November 8, 2010

Laura, Joe and Lesley dropped us off in Buffalo last night at a motel where we stayed overnight. We had a flight to Detroit at 8:07. We arrived at the airport in plenty of time, got checked through, but the airplane had an electrical problem. We waited over an hour and a half for it to be fixed. Fortunately, our connecting flight to Memphis was not until 12 so we were not late for that flight. Our driver, who happens to be the grandfather of one of the Marina managers was in Memphis waiting for us. He drove us back to Aqua Marina but our boat was not ready. I originally told them we would return on the 9th not the 8th, when I booked the service. I wanted them to wax the hull, paint the bottom and check the zincs. They were almost finished but they had just applied a second bottom coat finish and were waiting for it to dry. The other thing we need done was the Raymarine depth sounder needed to be repaired. They sent the module back to Raymarine for repair but it had not been returned as of 3:00 today. They were trying to find out where it was.

They loaned us a truck, so we went and looked for a motel which we found in Corinth. We could have slept on the boat, even though it was on the hard, but it was in the paint shack and the smell would have driven us crazy.