It’s laundry day and spectra water pump solution day. Today Julie set off by herself in the dinghy
with 3 loads of laundry with the hopes she has no issues with the
outboard. For safety of course she has
the VHF radio so someone will hear her and assist. All goes well. The outboard had been acting up lots, but we
are learning this was operator
failure. We now believe we had been
flooding the engine by pumping the bulb too much and providing too much
choke. “Less is more” is the new
motto. When we say all went well with
laundry it means that the facitilies were right on the waterfront, there was no
line up, the room was clean and cool and there was actually 3 machines so all
the laundry went in at the same time.
Julie then pulled up a waterfront chair and read her novel for 30
minutes without a care in the world.
Meanwhile Dawson was pulling the watermaker pump from its home in our
livingroom settee. Had Dawson finished
early he would have kayaked in with the pump.
Julie however sped out in the dinghy after transferring stuff into the
dryer to give Dawson a lift into shore.
After laundry was all stowed safely we headed to town to
ship the pump. This was a very hot and
sweaty walk. We hunted for a ups to no
avail. We backtracked also. Finally we found a no name business that
ships. It is our $1600 water pump for
the watermaker so hopefully it makes it there and back. We are not so sure it will.
Back on the boat it was now playtime so we kayaked over to
Jack Tar to say hello. Our other plan
was to find the fish store across the bay, but Carol (yoga buddy from Hampton)
and Peter from Jack Tar were on board and welcomed us for a rum and tonic which
is a new drink that Carols sister discovered while awaiting Jack Tar to
arrive. Carol’s sister had arrived with
her husband from Australia but Carol and Peter had not arrived yet on Jack
Tar. Jack Tar left with us from Hampton
but had some challenges along the way so we were very happy to see them arrive
in port today in Marsh Harbour. They
regaled us with their stories of getting to the Bahamas. The number of cold fronts creating storms
this fall has been quite overwhelming.
On the bright side though, no major tropical storms i.e. Hurricanes.
As we paddled back to our boat nightfall was upon us so we
had to move quick as there are a number of ferries that go back and forth
across the channels. Once back on boat
the stars were shining and it was a beautiful night to breath in the warm air
and appreciate life.
Cheers
Julie and Dawson
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