Out to Brunch with the Bikers and Clocks

The ladies here at the dock went on a bike ride this morning and invited me to go along. The guys piled into a car and headed to Home Depot and West Marine. Penny would be proud how I hopped on this 6 speed bike (Citizen folding—we may have to invest in a couple) and headed out across the docks and pretty much kept up. The promise of brunch half way down the way was the carrot, plus the company was very pleasant. A couple of hours of exercise felt great and here in Florida there are not many hills to make it too challenging. We stopped at O’Hana’s for brunch (a Hawaiian-like village café) and it was great. Back at the boat on this gorgeous breezy day and I can either nap or write. Life is hell ain’t it? So I might share our clock conundrum. We have a variety of clocks aboard and only 1 of them keeps accurate time and it is battery powered. Scott would go crazy. I understand when we are underway the process of being plugged into the shore power, to the generator and to the inverter causes clock radios and the coffee pot to have intermittent power outages. But…even when they do not change power sources these devices lose time or gain time. They are never the same—there is no rhyme or reason. On the crossing we had one of the devices on the bridge with us and randomly the clock would tinkle like it was a phone ringing and reset the time. Never to the correct time. During the 18 hours it took we watched as we lost about 45 minutes on that clock. Weird to us—anyone got an answer?


Nina, Linda and Stephanie (Biking Buddies) at O'Hana's