Father's Day turned out to be the "boat repair day from hell". Seems like Murphy with his law of everything that can go wrong will came to pay us a special visit. The hot water heater had a reset button that needed to be pushed. To get to it Clark had to remove 2 screws. The rest took 5 minutes. Putting the screws back in took well over an hour.
The hot water heater is hidden deep in the bottom of the boat. Clark had to crawl under the mattress in the second state room and lean over a compartment with the water tank in it. He then had to do all work by feel and the help of a mirror. He gets a headache every time from all the blood running to his head ... never mind the back ache that comes along with being a contortionist.
The replacement of the fuel filters was one problem after another culminating in Clark accidently knocking over the container of fuel oil he'd collected from the filter. It went every where including on him, his shoes, and ridiculously difficult places to reach in the bilge.
What should have taken an hour took 5.5! Instead of eating dinner after all that, we went for a 2 mile walk looking for a garage to dispose of the old fuel oil. We didn't find one, so we brought it back to the boat. Then we went for a bike ride to explore some of the area. Clark saw bike trails when we were walking and Clark wanted to see where they went.
I finally started dinner at just before 9 and we ate around 10. What a day! At least Clark enjoyed some of the day.
We plan to leave here tomorrow (Monday) and go to Amsterdam, NY to visit Heather's parents. Hopefully we won't run into issues due to the canal closures further along the canal.
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