When we got up it was late. Our goal this morning had been to sleep in! Then we headed off to get some lunch. We found a cute café and sat down for some excellent lasagna. As fine a béchamel sauce as we’ve had. Mmmm. As we were sitting there, these three characters came to stand and wait for their bus. Melissa took out the camera, but they spotted it immediately and had to pose. Kids are the same the world over.
Then it was time to grab the ferry back to where the boat has been parked for two and a half months. We were anxious to see how she fared while we were gone. We were happy when we got aboard to find that the there was some mold, but it wasn’t too bad. Dave’s dehumidifier and the open bottles of Clorox seem to have helped. The pillows all had some mold and the bed had a few spots of mold. And there was some on the cabinets. Melissa immediately started scrubbing everything down with a diluted bleach solution to try and kill all the mold and spores. A couple of hours of cleaning and the main and aft cabins are clean. The forward cabin will have to wait for daylight. Mid way though the water tank we were running on went dry. Melissa asked Dave to switch tanks, and a quick check of the water tank gauges indicated we were totally out of water. What the devil? We know we had 50+ gallons when we left the boat. After thinking maybe we had a tank with a slow leak, Dave discovered that it was the tank gauge that wasn’t working.
Dave fired up the generator so we could turn on the water maker and the air conditioner. Hmmm. Both the forward and aft air conditioners are acting up. Ok, gonna have to look at that tomorrow. But then the generator shuts down. Uh oh. Not good. Dave finds there are a bunch of small fish in the sea strainer. He cleans it out and turns it back on. Runs for a while and quits again. This is not good. Let us hope when Dave goes to work on it tomorrow it isn’t anything major… Regardless, Dave is happy to be back aboard his boat with projects to work on.
Meanwhile, Dave was working on fixing one of our hand held radios. It was a super cheap one he bought from China at the start of this trip for $35. The speaker in it had died. So he ordered a new speaker for $1 and was able to resolder it tonight and now the radio is working again. Of course, we also ordered another two new ones for $35 each. So now we are swimming in hand held radios. But that’s ok, cuz we already sent one overboard a while back. So having spares is a good thing.