Sunday, January 26, 2020

Georgetown, Exuma, Bahamas

23.30.235N
75.45.748W

Happy Australia Day Gerry and Nicky!  I’m sure you’re celebrating it in style somewhere in the BVI’s!

Looking from town across the channel

Today is Sunday and we spent it doing pretty much what we did last Sunday.  After the net, we went into “Beach Church,” sat around for an hour or so chit chatting with various people.  Ordered the rib dinner from Chat N Chill (which was excellent by the way), then listened to Caldwell Thompson give a talk about “bush medicine”.  We thoroughly enjoyed listening and talking with this man.  In fact, so much so, that I failed to join my Domino friends for our Sunday game.  In any event, we had a great time in our day across the channel. 

When we returned, I tried my theory of ‘once a day the washing machine will work’ and, would you believe it, it did.  Granted, I only put some wet clothes in to spin but it worked; I’m happy.  Unfortunately, shortly after it finished, the generator died; much like it did back in Cave Cay.  It was almost dark by that time, so Dale simply flipped everything back to the inverter and said he’d look at it tomorrow.  I think we have a big booger in the tank somewhere and every so often, it clogs the whole shooting match.  Somehow, we’ve got to get it out.  Just not sure exactly how we’re going to do that. 

So calm, you can see 

the anchor chain

Besides playing in diesel again (which has got to be Dale’s least favorite thing to do on the boat—which includes working on the toilet), we’re hoping our sail part comes in and we can affect a decent repair.  Tomorrow is supposed to be as calm as today was, so it should be a good day to pull the sail out and onto the deck.  If the tear is out of my realm of sewing, we have heard of someone in town that does sail repair, so we do have a back up plan if necessary. 
As always, wish us luck.