While Laurel was out wedding dress shopping with Sarah, I was at the boat trying to get some work done. After sanding for 30 minutes it started to rain. I put everything away and went inside. The rain stopped, so I set everything back up. It began to rain again. This happened a dozen times before I gave up and decided to work on something else. I figured I could cut out the hole for the new exhaust. “Pfft, easy!” I don’t know what brain flatulence was occurring at that moment, but I didn’t realize the new hole was going to be half in the water. Ugh…. I just made more work for us. Now we are going to have to patch that hole (3 inches!) on the transom and make a new one higher up so the exhaust doesn’t experience back-flow.

To make matters worse, it was still raining. I had covered the porthole we were working on with a tarp. What I didn’t think about was the water traveling down the gunnel. It was going under the tarp and pouring directly into the galley. I found out after an inch of rain filled up to the fiddles about the stove. A half dozen towels later it was dry and some pots and pans were placed under the stream. I guess we need to reinstall the port ASAP!