Off to Tabago Keys. 80s music day. Gotta love some old school hair bands from the 1980s.
Leaving Union Island
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Don’t hurt my doggie
Cleared customs in Union Island at Clifton over at the airport. Great day so far and we are just sitting down to lobster dinner at Vanessa’s over in Chatham Bay one of our favorite spots. Normally we are one of 3 boats here but right now there are 20 boats on anchor and it’s gusting to 30 miles an hour with a pretty good surge making landing the dingy on the beach a little tricky while avoiding the rocks, but we all survived.
Over in Clifton when we cleared in we also found a couple of taters as we used all that we had previously purchased. We ran around town for a couple hours and even bought 20 gallons of water so that the water maker won’t have to be running 24×7 to keep us clean.
As we were getting set to dingy back to the boat it started to rain a bit. With rain comes wind with wind and boats on anchor in close proximities things happen. While we were out in town a local 60’+ charter boat came in and picked up their ball pretty close to us. The wind from the rain had them shift into us. We scrambled aboard and grabbed fenders to put between the boats and I think we were successful. Christine says we touched but I couldnt find a mark. We high tailed it out of there right away.
Successful morning
Bailed out the port side of the boat. I mentioned a leak on the port side earlier that spilled almost all of our port fresh water into the bilge. One of the bilge pumps wasn’t taking care of pumping it overboard so what should have been a flick of a switch turned into a debugging session. I think the diaphragm in that pump needs to be replaced so I just hooked it up to another of 3 pumps on the port side and we were able to pump all that nice dirty fresh water overboard.
Now to fix the leak. First to find it as well. Turned on the pressure and I could hear a spray it was coming from beneath the new toilet. Grrrrrr. Wouldn’t you know it it’s coming from behind the wall. I could feel the split in the hose but there would be no way to adjust the hose clamps. I removed the head and disconnected the hose from the head and pulled it all the way out. Cut off a section of hose and it’s all back in business. Of course those projects ate about two hours in paradise but we are on the move again. Motoring over to Union Island to clear into the Grenadines
Still dragging fishing lines but so far we will just have to have a fish dinner on shore