Evening docked in at Ortega Landing marina

Lounging in the cockpit last night was wonderful. I did it because the air conditioner wasn't working but was rewarded with caresses of gentle breezes and beautiful surroundings as the sunset flared and subsided, and evening lights became more prominent with twilight deepening. Here are three views of this lovely waterscape:

PS: Later, Rick called and talked me through the AC fix. It was really a maintenance item, not a repair ... Turned out that the filter in the water hose that cools the AC unit (you know, the one that has water streaming out of docked boats almost 24x7 in Florida's summer heat) was all clogged with debris and mud. It just couldn't let the water pass through, so it stopped the AC unit from allowing the compressor to do its job of cooling - just like the filter's air lock ("vapor lock") condition that had prevented the AC from cooling when we first docked here in July. Fortunately the fix was simple as Rick talked me through it. I closed the water hose's through-hull intake valve, unscrewed the water filter, removed the filter, and cleaned it plus the filter housing. The filter was a metallic mesh screen cyclinder. I used a brush (toilet brush actually) on its exterior, and a discarded toothbrush on its interior. Then simply replaced the filter into the housing which I screwed tightly back in place. Opened the intake valve, turned on the AC unit, and waited. It took a couple of minutes for the water hose to fill and convince the compressor to stay engaged. But once I heard the water hose's outflow gushing strongly from the outflow through-hull (at the top of the center bridge of the hull's underside, slightly port-side of center), we knew the air conditioner was fine again. Gotta admit, taking the cabin interior down from 104 F. at 1:30 pm to the 70's last night was very welcome. A sauna might be nice but not for more than 20 minutes! So, I'll add the new label "Maintenance" to this post.