June 18, 2024 Home, Charlotte and back to Baltimore

June 18, 2024 Off the Boat Travels

Our one week stay in Baltimore turned into 2 weeks. Well actually, the boat stayed two weeks - we were driving around most of it. Got a rental car and headed home for some follow-up Dr appointments. All good with that. We were having an issue with our Vacuflush system for the master head before getting to Baltimore. Slow motor on the pump but worse was the pump bellows started to leak. Not good. Ordered new rebuild kit and paid for expedited 2-3 day US Postal Service delivery. Shipped from Ft. Lauderdale to Savannah with stated Monday delivery. No problem as we planned to leave the condo on Tuesday AM. But after spending 2 days at the Jacksonville distribution center it got shipped to Birmingham!! Their distribution center sat on it another 2 days before shipping it back to the Jacksonville facility who finally sent it to Richmond Hill for delivery on Thursday!! UGH!!!

Under the white cover is the Vacuflush motor and pump.
Upside down with head in the bilge is the position for working on it.

In the meantime, we had a family issue when my 90-year-old mom tripped and fell. Hit hard flat onto her face. Two broken teeth, knot on her head, cut lip, black eye. I'll spare you those pictures. Decided it was prudent to make a detour through Charlotte for a visit. All this resulted in calls to extend our car rental and boat slip stay for an extra week. Finally made it back to Baltimore Saturday. Spent Sunday successfully replacing the Vacuflush parts and watching an airshow over the inner harbor as part of Fleet Week. Monday was a reprovision day and Tuesday was return car, check out a brewery and do laundry day as we prepped for departure.