Harmony is BACK! (with a few little issues)

Diron talking to Norm about the 'take off' plan

Norm is always around to help! Thank Goodness! Norm & I (:

We FINALLY got our house back in the water! Diron took her up the Nuese River back to our slip in New Bern on Friday the 3rd (Dec)! It was in the 30's so he froze his butt off for the 3 hour sail back. Good thing he loves it!ha! I dropped him off at the boat and waved bye (:

Our nice,sweet, boat neighbor, Jim, let me drop him off on base at Diron's car and drove it back to New Bern. For this we were SO grateful! Also grateful to our friends, Karen & Wes, who let us and the cats inhabit their house for a whole darn week! It would've been BAD having to get a hotel for that much longer (and the cats boarded). Now hopefully, the bottom is set. They had it sandblasted to bare hull, reapplied barrier coat, then bottom paint. It looks really good and feels good to know it's done right! The guy there who runs Wayfarer's Cove (Tom) was really nice and professional. The bill hurt but they actually covered the $400 sandblast, and gave us cut prices for the haul-out and paint. We are very thankful for that as well. Always nice to deal with nice people...whew!

Diron just coming under the bridge finally making it back to New Bern with Harmony (in pitch black dark!)

Today we had a dude come in right away to look around to see about our water leak. He found it within 15 minutes after pulling up several panels, checking the bilge pump, and looking outside. He was very nice and said he was just worried about if it was in danger of sinking (aaaagh NO! ...but he did have one sink last week...BAD!!). He found out it was just a minor continuous leak (and not a problem with the bilge pump working- which pumps out any leaked or extraneous water that comes in, and used other water). So, he will return tomorrow to complete it..yay!!!

Our heater was blowing cold air and I kept telling Diron that something wasnt right. Well, I talked to some good neighbors on the dock today (thanks Bill & Clyde!), and after picking their brains about it, they brought it to my attention that Harmony was not putting out any water from the pump into the water. All Diron would have to do was prime the pump since it had been out of the water for so long. Clyde came and helped when Diron got home..and viola! FINALLY hot air! We froze our bootays off this morning. It's warm in bed (electric blanket), and in satchel's room (Electric space heater), but NOT in the cabin (even though another electric space heater there). Now it's pretty cozy since all the heating is working. It's in the teens outside so THANK GOODNESS!!!