Half Wait, Half Sail

Trippe Creek
N 38 42.646 W 076 07.890

We're having trouble with our refrigeration system. It was running too many hours per day and causing the main batteries to run down overnight. I checked it and sure enough, there are bubbles in the coolant. It needs to be recharged with gas. I walked up to the hardware store and bought a can of R134A coolant gas, and an adapter hose to connect it to the service port of the fridge. The hose didn't fit. I got the number of the local regrigeration guy in Solomons and left a message for him.
He was supposed to call back this morning. He didn't. We waited until noon, then gave up and left. Oh well, if he had called it probably would only be to let us know that he's booked 3 weeks in advance.

We wanted to cross over the Chesapeake to Oxford on the Eastern Shore to meet with Doug. Doug is a blog fan and a Westsail owner who contacted us. It seems that there are three W32s in Oxford.

Surprise, the weather cooperated. Today is the first day with wind since we got to Solomons a week ago. We were able to sail almost all the way over here. Just before arriving, the wind freshened to 20 knots. So this has been a nice day. Any day in the summer when there is enough wind to sail in the Chesapeake is a nice day.

I'm going to call the manufacturer of our fridge and order an adapter hose from them. I'll ask them to ship it overnight or 2nd day air. The only problem is to find an address to ship it to. UPS and Fedex will not ship to a general delivery address, and most businesses won't use USPS to ship packages.