The Party is over

The party is over.  You know the old saying, well this party is over.  Some may already be aware that Kevin and I are back stateside.  Let me back up a bit.  This trip was meant to be a shakedown cruise to test all our systems and see how well we did provisioning for long term.    During our trip Kevin has been babysitting (as he calls it), the water maker.  There have been multiple leaks under the floorboards just above the water and diesel tanks.  None of the water is able to go in the bilge, so we manually moop it out with a sponge and bucket.  About two weeks ago the watermaker had a bolt shear off, which then caused the piston shaft to wobble and  blow out the seals.  Just prior to this happening the leak had got to the point of spilling a gallon of seawater under the floorboards, for every gallon it was making.  He had replace all the seals twice, prior to this. 
So with all that said we needed to head home.  We heard horror stories from other cruisers about having parts shipped over and being held up in US customs for weeks.  It would have been a little on the expensive side for buying 400 gallons of water (time to go home).   We planned on anchoring out in melbourne, while waiting for parts to be delivered.  Well that's not happening with all the crab pods littering all the anchorage spots.  Our new home for the month is back at Waterline marina, just a different slip. 
It will be off to St. Augustin until July after we get our parts and fix the water maker.  Until then, fair winds my friends and happy sailing.