Whew. We really had got used to the coolness of Spring in South Africa and Autumn (Fall) in Uk and now we’re back in Grenada melting away. Yesterday evening and night turned out to be the most humid they’ve had for a while and we were treated to some heavy overnight rain. And with the mossies we had to sleep with the hatches more or less closed. Joy.
That all being said we’ve been fairly busy today. The things we’ve done include :
- Sanding the drive shafts and putting new zinc collars on
- Installed the dodger (twice because we had to take it off to have a couple of the poppers fixed at the sail loft)
- Untied the dinghy
- Hoisted and furled the head sail
- Checked the drive battery voltages and tested the electric motors.
- Half mounted the lazy bag which holds the main sail when lowered.
- Followed up on our parts which are currently en route to Grenada. We should get these by end of next week
- Chased (several times) the boat yard to complete the work on the boat. (This work is to fix a crack towards the stern and patch the gelcoat where we scraped a buoy when the boat went adrift in Guadeloupe)
- Cleaning and sorting inside of boat
- Reorganised medical kits
- Cleaned sides of boat
Jim visited late morning when we were slowing down due to the heat. He brought along a little of his ant killer to deal with the hordes invading Dignity. A few blobs certainly attracted many ants and soon there were corpses and an obvious drop in numbers. However, it appears they have regrouped and numbers are rebuilding.
We had a pleasant lunch and beer with Jim at the beach bar here before parting ways.
Tomorrow we’ll head into the capital to pick up some of our own ant killer as well as the salinity probes for the water maker which Jim now has but uncharacteristically forgot to bring. The boat work has now started and they promise to be ready in time for our splash on Monday by working through the weekend. We’ll see.
For now we’ll just try to enjoy the evening stuck here with little breeze and mossies taking over from the ants.
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