Real Progress

Good News: The fuel tank is sealed! Tested it this morning and no bubbles. Wheeeeeee HOOO!

The autohelm is totally in but not the final wiring which I am having trouble deciphering from Raymarine.

We were going to hoist our new jib this morning but Grenada has a big tropical wave sitting on it with lots of wind and storms. We'll wait a day on that one.

Got the SSB radio up and running and listened to the off shore report today from the National Weather Service. I like starting my day that way and I keep a log of the weather report day by day. Helps in planning.

Speaking of planning: We will take Enee out for a day sail just to try the new jib and see if we remember how to sail. We'll probably anchor then and not take the mooring ball back to practice anchoring again. We've had a hole cut in the bottom of the anchor locker so in theory I can get at the chain from topsides when it castles up. We'll see. If all goes well with that trial run we'll pick a good sailing day to make a 60 mile run to Bequia. From there about the same length run to St. Lucia. Now we have a great angle to St. John/St Thomas or we can even fall off more and sail to Puerto Rico. OR, if a hurricane is coming we are only 2 days away from running to hide back in Grenada. The run to those northern waters is about 300 miles or 2.5 - 3 days. I think I'd like the auto helm for that.

Other small jobs keep getting done. Sue re-bedded one of the deck prisms over the aft cabin as it was leaking during heavy rain. We're about to put the mattress back in the aft cabin so we won't be working around that any longer. Hurray.

Looks like something heavy broke the knob on the forward head so, ugh, we've been flushing with a bucket. Can't find that part here either of course. But, I have the same toilet in the aft head so I'm hope to rob from that one to fix the forward head.

I'd put up pictures but the coconut wifi is not up to that this morning.

Out and Over!