The Admiral is Finally Here...Yahoo

Well the Bham airport is really nice. Easy in ..Easy out..pretty plants ,clean. Great access to the interstates. Now that Jan is here the dog that has lived with me for two weeks on the boat does not even know I exist. Glad to have her here and pleased that we can work on boating chores together. With only one person some jobs double their time of completion with all the running back and forth. Bought her to Demopolis and introduced her around. Took her to the wall for some excellent boating conversation, I knew she would love that. TOPIC CHANGE...Ilearned from Bob Lusco and Pete Hansen to do daily engine checks while traveling. You do not do your engine checks while on the move ...what i mean is daily before embarking on another leg of your journey. Two good reasons to do the checks of a morning...one is the engines have cooled down, and two is you are fresher and it does not cut into evening social time. Besides the obvious once over of the entire engine room including the engines, the generator , the couplings, the packings, and the bilge ..looking for fluids, hoping to find none. One would also check the oil and water in all the engines, check the fuel tubes, look for water in the separators, check the batteries for distilled water, and check the transmission oil. All of these are pretty casual but could save a ton of time, money and work if you found something you could solve before it became a big deal...Once again I appreciate your tuning in ..Thanx Tom