Friday, December 27, 2024

Chiheb’s arrival

 I did many errands in the morning prior to Chiheb’s arrival about 2PM

We met at the metro station.  Had a burger at Burger King walked around a bit and went to the boat  


Saturday we toured downtown Miami

Sunday we did the groceries with San Rito Raou and Chiheb  and filled my spare diesel Jerry Can as well as a fellow boater using Sanrito’s car  


Chiheb and I swapped out the damaged anchor 


Monday, December 23, 2024

Boat Work

Put away provisioning 

Cleaned fridge 

Installed newly filled propane tanks 

Installed new battery 

Empty food nets 

Cleaned water tank filter screen

Inspected the oil leak on the cam shaft manual crank



I slept aboard BELLUM


The next day I went to the Apple Store in Brickell to have my iPhone battery replaced.  They were slow at changing the battery so I went to tour the local urban spraw  Like the rest of Miami, everything was densely built up.  Reminds me of the movie BRASIL.

Nothing interesting, so I went back to the Apple store and had a demo of the incredible Apple Vision PRO - very impressed and  expensive.  I bought it.  

Came back home and Sandro had ordered Pizza from Dominios that ended up not delivering, so we had pork.

Swansboro to Oriental

 I got up early (again) and found Bellum had been spinning round the anchor.  When I pullled up the anchor, the chain seemed to have spun a ...