Amari - Beef Box Wine, and the watermaker whisperer (get a bigger hammer)

Today Dottie had her head buried in the locker in our room, where the water maker lives. Enlisting me for screwing and unscrewing the filters to test this and that, she was committed to figuring out why oh why is this thing only putting out 5 gallons an hour. The horrors, right?

Then I heard her make a little Dottie shout of joy, a shoutlet really, and when I went down to investigate I saw her happy face lift out of the locker, beaming a smile, holding a hammer!

"Percussive maintenance!"

Dottie the water-maker-whisperer discovered the problem. There are two pumps down there and only one of them was working, so the output was cut in half.

And now you're asking, sooooo what's with the hammer Dottie? She found that if she gently tapped on the side of the pump it would start working again. This is why, if we ever get a coat of arms, it's motto would be "Stuff don't work? Get a bigger hammer"

Getting it going with a whack whack here and a tap tap there eventually settled it into going all the time. It didn't want to work, but eventually realized that it just had to. What a Millennial.

I in the meantime troubleshat the Iridium system and discovered that our external antenna is on strike (must be French) and just not working right now. Luckily for us, our little iridium box has its own antenna which we hope is made by the Japanese!

Finally, our outhaul on the main has a chafe point at the back of the boom, and Dottie and I rigged up a temporary solution that seems to have stopped the creaking, which hopefully will stop the chafing!

All in all a productive Saturday.

As for food, we did have ceviche and salad for lunch but zero people were saying wahoo over the WaHoo for dinner. In stead it was a beef loin with an unfortunate lack of marbling. We should have known that this cut that really wanted to be a stew or something.

So we all gnawed dutifully through a bit of it before pretty much focusing on the mashed potatoes 😋. The leftover meat will be cubed and tossed into the instapot to make something. We'd like to make a beef burgundy with it, but we don't have any burgundy wine, so it will have to be Beef Boxed Wine here on the SV Amari.

Mm mm good.