Layover - Wednesday, Augist 10,2017

We were able to sleep in until 7:30 and the went to a bagel shop for breakfast while waiting for West Marine to open at 0900.  The bagels wrre "New York style", chewey and good. 

When West Marine opened we were right at the door waiting for them.

The bad news was they did not have any stock of alternators of even parts for the chargimg system.  The good news was that the manager of the store, Jan, was very helpful and provided us with names of other places I might be able to find the parts.  However, after numerous phone calls none had the parts we needed.  We finally left the store discouraged and trying to think of ways we could limp back to Boston without an alternator.

As we were just turning the corner out of their parking lot Jan came running out of the store yelling to us with a man following her.  The man was Ralph Covington the owner of "The Boat Doctors" who had been shopping in West Marine.  When Jan told him of our plight, he said he could help,

Ralph, said he would take our alternator to Bronx Igniton for repair and have it back to us in the afternoon.  I went back to the boat to remove the alternator.  Ralph picked up the alternator and we waited for him to call while we cleaned up the boat.

Ralph called around 1230 to tell me that they had a new alternator for us, but they nedeed time to modify it for me.  He said he'd be back with the new alternator around 1500.

We worked on several small projets while we waited.

Ralph arrived with the alternator about 1600 and I immediaty installed it on the boat   After some intial testing we were satistisfied that it was working well.

We went to dinner at local pub called "Brennan's" to celebrate and talk about our scheduled return trip.  Tomorrow will be a long drive to Stonington, CT, about 70 miles up the Sound behind Fisher's Island.