Day 3 - Waiting and Waiting
Day 3 and we are still in Manasquan Inlet. It blew and rained all night. We slept in today but got up with a chore list we wanted to accomplish. We filled the water tank and decided to check on the electric scooters as we had planned to ride around the town today. Well it turns out the waterproof bags we bought for them really aren’t waterproof. Doug turned on one of the scooters and smoke was coming out of the console. The other one when he tried to turn it on made a funny noise. We put them down below in the air-conditioning to try get any moisture out of them. Tomorrow we are going to call the scooter company to see if we can order new controllers and have them delivered here. The weather is still supposed to be windy tomorrow so we will hang here for another day. We are hoping we can order the scooter controllers and have them overnighted to us here. Yesterday the new TV antenna (that worked great the day before) doesn’t work any more. We think the rough seas may have rattled something loose. We decided to watch a dvd today and the dvd player died part way through the movie. If we don’t laugh about all of this it could really get to us. We are trying to roll with it all.
We lucked out that today our friends Don and Michelle stopped by on their way to visit family. They brought us to where they are staying and I am using her computer to get caught up on the posts. It is great to get off the boat and we got to see some of the towns surrounding Brielle, NJ. I have discovered that my hot spot doesn’t work well enough to post to the blog. I was posting the last two days’ blogs to Facebook so if you don’t see them here send me a friend request on FB and you can see them there. Marina wi-fi is the absolute worst and crashes all the time.
Our plans are up in the air again. If we can get the scooter company to ship our parts tomorrow we will stay another day. The wind is supposed to continue to blow so we will stay put until we can have a comfortable ride. Because the scooters died and the rain has been non-stop that we haven’t explored too much. I did MacGyver the portable dvd player to act as a dvd player and connected it to the tv so we could watch a movie. If I only could fix the other two big problems and the weather we would be all set.
I will try to post daily but if it isn’t up here it is because the wifi won’t allow it. We have three weeks to complete this trip. We are going to be moving once this bad weather breaks. We may have some long days ahead of us to try to make up some time. Hopefully, we can keep you entertained while we wait out this weather.