It has been a trying month

After we pumped out the basement, threw out all the junk that got wet and cleaned out work, we were able to get down to the boat. Before I get that far I need to say that Lil Provo came through fine up on land. No problems that I am aware of. When I called the boat yard and asked how things were going I was told that Lil Provo was sitting on her mooring. WHAT! What about the leak on the lower tiller bracket? The other end of the phone lite up with him calling himself dumb and stupid, etc. I assume after I hung up he went right out to bring Lil Provo back to shore to repair the leak. A couple weeks have gone by and I went down to check on her only to find her on the mooring. When I opened the companionway, the cabin had about 3" of water sloshing around the floor. I immediately went to the cockpit locker to open it up to see if there was water in the rear bilge from the lose tiller bracket. It was bone dry. Stupid me, I opened the floor inspection cover and more water came pushing into the cabin. I thought maybe the battery had died due to Tropical Storm Lee dumping so much rain on us. I pulled the battery from the dinghy and replaced the one in the cockpit compartment. I then went into the cabin and pulled the bilge pump from her stand down in the bilge. When I turned it on, it was barely moving. I came to the conclusion that the pump was shot. I pumped her dry with the hand pump and took a ride to West Marine where I picked up another pump. I got back to the yard and back out to Lil Provo where I changed the pump. It wasn't much fun laying on my stomach to get to the terminal strip under the cockpit. I did lay down some life jackets, but still got soaked. The test went fine and the pump was working well. I had killed most of my sailing time. The water was loaded with debri anyway, so I decided to sit it out and clean up the boat. Hopefully everything will remain in good shape until by return from China.