Day 20 - By Vicki

Last night winds were east  at 20 knots.  These east winds really get the boat rocking, and I have been having reoccurring variational dreams  the boat, with us in it, is swallowed up by the ocean.  When the boat is rocking, and I mean really rocking, I actually get up several times per night to make sure we are not sinking.   Aaron and the cat slept next to the portable air unit.  The cat got seasick again.  I cleaned up projectile vomit again.   

Aaron decided to unhook the portable air unit today and exchange it for a bigger, badder one.  This process took several hours and me, Suzanne, and Tina were responsible for making sure the cat didn’t die of heat stroke.  The boat gets extremely hot inside, extremely fast- just like a car does.  This boat it very difficult to ventilate, and impossible without a fan.  Aaron didn’t put the fan together that he bought last night because he discovered the base was so large it would take up 25 percent of the living room space.  Plus, he was just exhausted and over it. 

Eventually I carried the very fat cat up the ladder to the flybridge so we could both get some  shade and some air.  Tina and Suzanne looked at me like I had lost my mind, and maybe I have.  It’s been a very long twenty days.  The cat was ticked off at me for a while, but eventually chilled out and even started to enjoy herself.  Getting the cat down from the fly bridge was a completely different story, and I had to have Aaron help me get her down.  She didn’t like the trip down much. 

Kramit The Cat Chillin On The Flybridge

At 5pm nobody had eaten a thing, so we all walked downtown to get some Mexican Food.  Aaron and I are both very grateful for all the help we have gotten today and over the past three
 weeks.  We paid for everyone’s dinner, and wished we could do more. 

We now have a bigger, badder portable air unit and a good fan.  It’s actually the fan that Lisa was eying last night, but Aaron had his mind set on buying the biggest, baddest  fan so she didn’t say a word.  I guess we will know tomorrow if our new system will cool things off. 

Terry and Suzane With The Evil Boat



Super Classy Air Conditioning Vent.