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Strong winds the first night at\u00a0Willoughby\u00a0Bay helped set the anchor so well that it took us more than one hour to dislodge it from the thick mud at the bottom of that anchorage. We moved a short distance to Portsmouth, where we docked between the monohull Ma\u00f1ana<\/em> and the multihull Today<\/em>, perhaps a reflection of their respective cruising speeds. While waiting for the brackets we went through a long list of things to fix, maintain and improve (including long overdue items of personal maintenance I will spare you the details of). Stuff seems to break or fail at a faster rate we can fix them, but at least we feel we made a dent in that list.<\/p>\n

\"Heavy<\/a>
Heavy traffic in the Elizabeth River.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I changed the port engine’s oil and filter, this time using far fewer paper towels and latex gloves. Not exactly an achievement given the amount I used the first time, but it definitely counts as progress. When I’m down there in the tight, dirty and smelly engine room fiddling with an arcane contraption of metal, tubes, fluids and wires is when I miss my days as a software engineer, but it’s mostly because back then I knew what I was doing.<\/p>\n

\"Norfolk<\/a>
Norfolk, across the Elizabeth River from Portsmouth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Norfolk<\/a>
Norfolk mermaid.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Waiting for parts is not very adventurous, so there’s not much else to report from the front. We have no complaints regarding the lack of excitement, except that the chilly mornings remind us that we’d better be making progress towards lower latitudes.<\/p>\n

A significant number of readers requested a map with our route. (Significant number<\/em> is an euphemism for one<\/em>, although, with my readership, any number above zero is significant). Yielding to popular demand I added a link: click on map<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>at the top of this page.<\/p>\n

Breaking news!!!<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

I was about to submit this post, with some doubts after Kathy reviewed it and found it dull,\u00a0when things got suddenly exciting. In the wrong way. Or rather, in the usual way: the brackets are doing it again, in the most impossible plot! I’m going to change the title of this blog from Cruising Adventures\u00a0<\/em>to Alternator Brackets Misadventures<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the new episode: since they finally shipped the new brackets, I had been obsessively following the package progress on the UPS tracking page, to the point of checking in Google Maps how far away they were. Bound Brook, NJ, 344 miles.\u00a0Edison, NJ, 337 miles. Last night they were almost here, in Richmond, VA, 97 miles away. Early this morning the page said it was in the delivery truck! We even filled up the water tanks because it was possible we could get out of here early afternoon. I kept refreshing the UPS page waiting for that gratifying “delivered” message before going to the marina office to pick the package up. Instead, what I got was the following horrifying message: “Your package was damaged in transit. All merchandise discarded.” No, I’m not making that one up. We are talking about two pieces made of steel, this time half an inch thick. The whole point was to make them virtually indestructible, and I’m sure they were. I’ll reveal exactly what happened in my next post to give you time to come up with a plausible story explaining how the package could have gotten damaged to the point that the UPS\u00a0guys deemed the contents unrecoverable. I dare you.<\/p>\n

For now, it’s back to waiting. At least we’ll get to follow the elections with no distractions. Tremendous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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