lost in radar land

After a great visit with our grandsons and Craig and Kevin and Julie, we started on our radar problem. On Monday, August 3, we had the radar scanner taken down and found a broken wire. We called Raymarine,the manufacturer and we were told it would take 4 weeks to test it and repair it. We went to the marine shop at the marina and we were told they couldn't work on it for 2 weeks, but they had someone who would be at the marina and could look at it. So, we waited all day Monday and no one showed. We ordered a new digital radar scanner to be delivered to Brewers in So. Freeport which is where we are now. We left So. Portland about 4p.m. on Tuesday after waiting for the fog to lift, fog so thick the fishermen were staying in port.
On Wednesday on a mooring Lloyd, the expert from Brewer's worked all afternoon trying to put in the new cable, which was of course bigger than the old cable, down the mast. It kept getting stuck. He came out again on Thursday a.m. and had the same trouble. You see, with the new radar scanner there is new wire, can't use the old stuff. So we made the decision to have the mast pulled out. That took all Thursday afternoon. On Friday the new wire was put in and the new scanner was attached and the mast was put back in. Now all that had to be done was to wire it inside the boat, which Dave and I can do. Or at least Dave can do it, I could only help to pull the wire through and behind lockers. We thought we would be fininshed on Saturday, however Dave had cut his finger(small cut) and it had become infected. So off to the walk in minutes before they closed on Saturday. there was one advantage to this, though, we got to go to Dunkin Donuts for a ice coffee for me. We sure do miss the Coffee Grinder in Newport. I did meet a woman in the laundry here at the marina on Friday and she took me to the grocery store. Taxis are hard to come by and are expensive here. The marina loaned us a car to go to the walk in,I guess they felt sorry for us, or figured it was the least they could do with all the money we have spent. Dave and Peg Nelson, I would have called you for you cousin's name and number but phone cover is hit or miss, mostly miss. Actually, as I type this we are down the river about a 1/4 mile from the marina and I am getting better internet connection than we were dockside. We hope to leave tomorrow after finishing the wiring and will probably only go to some island close by to plan our next leg, hopefully it will be sailing and not repairing. We are both fine. Helen and Ray, we met Donna and Dennis last night, had a drink with them and actually felt for a while that we were cruising.