Gingerbread

Well – we finally managed to find a restaurant that was open. In fact, it was the one we had first thought of visiting for our anniversary – the Gingerbread restaurant here in Bequia.

No surprises. We both had a curry. The meal was pleasant enough and we had the place to ourselves. Desert was back on the boat while watching “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” which we’d downloaded in honour of our recent Ozzie friends.

Today was boat work. Primary focus was the fuel line to the genset. I had spares for the secondary fuel filter. Flipped this out but it looked quite clean. We managed to find a replacement primary filter ashore. When I changed this one all sorts of crud fell out of the old despite recent draining. After priming the engine all sounded fine. In fact, it sounded better than normal but that could just be wishful thinking. We will learn in time if this has helped.

It is one of my summer projects to beef up the primary fuel filter system. The Pacific is notorious for grotty fuel so a good system coupled with lots of spares is essential. Time just overtook us on this one.

We’ve also rechecked all the drive batteries to see the results of our acid mixing at the beginning of the month. Mixed results. Next step will be to equalize them which we’ll need to do in a marina down in Grenada.

We’ll hang around here while the forecast still looks bad. The winds are forecast to be up in the 20s. The boat will sail fine in these conditions but anchoring behind a reef or low lying island would be bumpy and make Helen miserable. That means getting ahead on our summer projects while we’re here. I bought some earth wire today so I can have a go at grounding the water maker and MPPT casings to reduce SSB interference.