Progress, Slow but Sure

We are making slow but sure progress here at Base Camp for Search for One. All of the broken water lines have been restored and some improvements made. The Kitchen Hut roof is almost done! I have found a local source for a deep cycle battery, so I won't need to wait until January or February of next year to get the 12 volt system  to work. The food safe will get new screen this week. We will be able to get the "Sugar Blues" running this week possibly.

The boat needs a lot of TLC! It seems to have "good bones." I have not been able really check out the systems well. Everywhere I look on the boat I see the definition of BOAT--bring out another thousand!
It will be a challenge to bring the systems up to par, but I am reminded that Rome was not built in a day either!

Joy has been busy planting a garden this week and really having fun with it!

This past week we enjoyed a 5 day stretch of steady SE winds that kept us cool and we did not notice the humidity as much with things able to dry out. I really savor the breezes! For you SE Alaskans reading this, Here the rain tends to come from the NW and clear sky from the SE.

I have been so busy with repair work that I have not been doing medical clinics. I see the occasional patient that comes to visit at the "Oceanside." The nurse will also refer a patient at times. We recently had a 19 y/o that was short of breath, no cough and had NO breath sounds on the left side of his chest. He was sent to Tarawa and I do not know what the final diagnosis was yet.

Whenever I think of "Oceanside" I fondly recall of the our old 32 Nordic Tug "Makai." Makai means "oceanside" in Hawaii. I always liked the name Makai, but even more so now!