Down at Taylors Island

 Well I guess its time I put my input into this blog. Sorry no pictures with this post. Karen put some up yesterday and we don't have all that much to show anyway.

We got down here on Wednesday the 10th. As expected the engines were not fully installed. Looks like we won't be leaving Taylors Island until Oct 1. If we are lucky. For now that doesn't matter. We have a lot of work to do on the boat. When they put the new engines in they removed most the wiring I had for the house batteries. That means that I will have to rewire the house batteries. That will be a job because of all the connections I have to make. There is the solar, the shore charger, the alternators plus about 5 more systems that have to be hooked up.  

The good news is we have the bottom painted. Next week we will paint the top and I should be able to start working on the electric system.

I now know why God set up the seven day week with one day off. My body hurts. I need a day off. Just climbing on the boat 50 times a day has made it hard to walk. So we are taking today off and going to a sports bar to watch the football games.

I should have some more to posts next week. So bye for now. 

Back To Tropical Diversion

Wes sold his truck and retired on 8/1/25 and my last day at the bank was 8/29/25 so we loaded up the pickup, trailer and Taylor and headed east to Maryland, which is where our boat has been since we pulled it out of the water in 2016.  We checked on it a few times when we went to Ocean City but we haven't really done much to it so needless to say, it was in pretty sad shape.  

We got here on Wednesday, 9/10 after stopping in Michigan to pick up a new dinghy.  We had ordered a new dinghy engine before we left home and hauled it out with us.  Wes is very excited because he now has the dinghy of his dreams, a 12 foot hard bottom dinghy with a 25 hp mercury engine.  

We ordered two new engines (18 hp Westerbeke's) back in December and the Marina hired a guy to install them.  Wes checked on them a few times over the past 8 months but they were moving pretty slow with the installation.  The gentleman (Steve), that is working on them is a local Police Sargent and has been working on them on the side.  When we got here, they were both in the boat and one was just about installed but the other, on the port side still needed quite a bit of work.  Steve showed up yesterday and worked on them all day.  He will need to come back but won't be able to come until the 22nd.  

We painted the bottom of the boat today and Wes worked on the electrical.  We have a ton of work to do, but it was a good start.  

Wes cleaning the bottom

After the bottom paint

New Starboard Engine

New Port Engine

This is what it looked like when we got to here