Friday, January 24, 2020

Georgetown, Exuma, Bahamas
23.30.235N
75.45.748W

I know, I know, I haven’t written in a couple of days.  BUT, there’s nothing going on!  We’re still anchored in front of George Town.  Dale goes in at least 3 times a day to fill our water can.  We’ve paid almost $600 in VAT taxes for our incoming parts (so we know that they’ve made it to Nassau) but when he checks with where they are supposed to be mailed to; still no parts.  One person told us that they’re on the plane but another said that’s what they tell you to get you off the phone.  So, we’ll try again tomorrow.

Today, Dale had to run by the telephone company because he received a text message saying that his auto renewal was due on Sunday.  That isn’t the plan he just bought.  He was assured that it won’t apply to him but considering what we’ve gone through with the telephone company, we’re not very confident that we won’t be charged. 

Today I tried to use the washer on board; it worked for 3 of the 4 cycles.  Then it seemed to hang up.  Dale thought maybe it was overloaded.  So we found a work-around.  Then I tried a smaller load.  Same thing.  I used the same work-around to get the clothes out and onto the line.   I don’t know what to say about this.  It is what it is. 

We did dinghy over to the other side to listen to a talk about a guy that lost his mast last week.  One of the few nice days we had last week he took his brother and a couple of friends out fishing.  15 knot winds.  3-4’ seas.  Not great but not awful either.  Then snap, he loses his mast.  During the question and answer period, it comes out that it was the original standing rigging on a 30 year old boat.  Regardless of the fact that it had passed a rigging inspection, its suggested that you replace your standing rigging every 10-12 years.  No one was injured.  His boat wasn’t holed.  He told how he cut everything free, was careful not to foul his prop and then limped back here.  The icing on the cake?  No insurance. 

As I’ve said in earlier posts, right when you think things are going bad, we hear of someone who has it worse.