Propane refills and other fun
December 26, 2020
The good news is that we managed to cook our Christmas dinner. To say that we didn’t run out of propane would be somewhat misleading... Through judicious use of the BBQ grill and the stove we had enough propane for our Christmas meal-- there was even enough propane for breakfast this morning
Once breakfast was complete we took the two empty tanks to a local oil and propane company and got them re-filled. Hopefully, we will get the third tank re-filled before we leave and be set for a while.
Other fun today included a trip to the auto parts store. We purchased replacement air struts to hold open our fridge top. Even with the part in hand, finding a matching part was not easy. In the end we settled for something that seemed “close enough”. In addition to the size, a larger issue turned out to be the lifting power of the struts. It was almost all I could do to shut the fridge with both new struts in place*. We took one back out and now the fridge lid seems manageable.
Our trip to the West Marine didn’t provide a solution to our lifeline problem. The part that Mike had ordered turns out to have a left-handed thread and won’t fit onto the end of the lifeline. The shop had very little stock and nothing that would be useful for us. Most likely we will have to get a new lifeline made with a swaged-on gate fitting.
We pulled the dinghy out of the water and cleaned the underside. It’s now drying on the dock. Hopefully we will get some more anti-fouling paint on it tomorrow. So far we are quite impressed with the bottom paint—minimal growth on the dumb dog.
Gloria
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* With two new struts our fridge could have been used as a medieval siege weapon .... "Fetchez la vache", place it on the fridge top, release the catch ... et voila, "pitchez la vache" (Monty Python - The Holy Grail) [Mike]
Belated happy Christmas! Thanks for keeping the entertainment flowing day by day, and for the amazing pictures... here's to better times all round in 2021
ReplyDeleteHi Will, Thanks for the note. Hope you had a good time and that 2021 is an excellent year for you. We'll write more in an email.
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