Friday, March 28th
The big blow started Tuesday. Tuesday night was another anchor watch
night. Wednesday we were supposed to
take the boat to the other side of the cay to the boatyard. It was still blowing 28 – 30 knots and the
seas were rough. Bill and Ken worked on
the shaft and then took the boat around to the boatyard. Thankfully, Ken went with Bill and the shaft
held together. The wind was on their
nose most of the way and they were only making 1 knot headway a good deal of
the time. Yesterday morning they hauled
WishBone and took apart the shaft, hub to survey the problem and get
measurements to order new parts. The
mechanic told me this morning that the shaft has been machined and the other
parts are now ready. So it is a matter
of getting them here. The delivery ship
leaves today and returns on Sunday – hopefully all will be on it.
April loves it here and is welcomed. The yard is all security gated so she is
pretty much free to run and roam. There
are also a couple of other dogs here for company. We are within a long walk to Marsh Harbor
downtown which gives us something to do.
Monday, March 31st
We met Francie and Ken and Skipper, our friends on Release,
on shore this weekend and feasted at Conky Joe’s, a local bar and grill with
the freshest conch around. We also took
the dinghy onto the beach yesterday and scraped the bottom. She should be twice as fast now! WishBone will have her bottom cleaned when
she is hauled for her repair. Today we
carried laundry into Marsh Harbour and back.
We have discovered a shorter path through the woods into town where
April can run free however it was still a long carry with laundry bags. We are having moon tides and when we got
back from our laundry trip to town we couldn’t get back on the boat. So here I am in the boatyard office waiting
for the tide and waiting for the person who orders the parts to get a report as
to the status of our order. The mechanic told me this morning that the machining wasn't completed on Friday so we are looking for a Wednesday arrival.
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