Our Time in Scarborough Has Run Out

It has been a long spring that didn't seem to want to get off the ground, and now it's summer:-)  Saturday, one day early, we bid good bye to Karen and Tom as they head their own way, and we go up to Wiscasset.  We finally have managed 2 Happy Hours outside, the first on June 8th, and the second not again until June 19th!  

We found one weather window and went on the mailboat to 5 islands in Casco Bay, Little Diamond, Great Diamond, Long, Great Chebeague, and Cliff.  Although cool outside, it was a lot of fun.

Leaving the dock

Fort Gorges

Pocahontas Light, standing 6 feet tall,
the smallest lighthouse registered by the Coast Guard

The motley crew

At least some were enjoying all the rain.

Our new truck has been working out very well, although we weren't very pleased with it shutting off and restarting the whole time.  I found a device on a forum I was reading that could easily be installed to stop that, but still be able to enable it should you want to, the Autostop Eliminator.  Works great.

Remove some trim

Before

After

We finally went to one of Portland's standards, J's Oyster, and I am sad to report that other than my steamers that were good, the rest of us were not impressed:-(

We even got a few projects done including replacing the leveling system control pad, and doing a complete service on the generator.

We all got delicious take out Banh Mi's from Banh Appetit, and ate them in the park overlooking the water.

Jan got some of the tons of fish she buys here to freeze.

Another project we had that we thought would take an hour or so morphed into weeks, mostly because of issues with a supplier we were working with.  We have Velvac mirrors on our coach, one of the standard mirror manufacturers in the industry, and although the mirrors are fine and work well, their weakness is in their chrome plating, 5 years is about the max they go before peeling, in fact we have replaced our entire mirrors numerous years ago.  But now, especially since Covid affected so many things including price, replacing our peeling mirror arm with new was cost prohibitive, and having them plated was also cost prohibitive, so we decided to see if we could find them at a salvage yard.  We did, BUT, what an ordeal, from the wrong arms, to delay after delay, finally getting two the right size, but one of them even worse than the one we were replacing, very frustrating, and no I am not going to name the company.  At the same time since we'd have the mirrors apart, we decided to upgrade our side cameras as well.

Our failed arm

Me removing the old camera.  You can see the wedge has lost its chrome as well

We decided, since replacing the wedges was $200 each, that we would remove the chrome as best we could and paint them black instead, turned out pretty well.

We were very pleased with the final product.

And the last project was to remove the satellite dish from the roof since we have switched over completely to streaming, and it was just sitting up there rotting away.  When we bought our coach in 2008 it had a King Dome in motion antenna up there, since it only offered SD, one of the first things we did was tear it off and install a Winegard DirecTV antenna, and it served us well for years and years, but time to go now, and we had Tom to help:-)

Jan scoping things out.

I have been having a little issue with my leg and after I went up to help realized the roof was not a good place for me at this time.  Tom jumped up to help us out and together Jan and he were able to remove it.

Just needs some clean up and sealing, the best news, it's gone!

So now we start moving again, for the rest of the year, the very longest we will be in one place will be two weeks, more to our liking.