Monday we moved the boat to Lindbergh Bay, which is close to the airport terminal. Usually the bay can be quite rolly, but it was not bad at all, so we were lucky.
Took the dingy and Dean dropped Kris off at the beach. Since the package arriving from Echo Tec (Water maker parts) was in Kris's name, she was the one needing to go in to pick it up. The walk was not far, only about a mile round trip. There is not a good place to land and leave the dinghy, or we both would have gone.
Once Kris returned, Dean got busy replacing our membrane, and then we turned on the water maker hoping for a magical cure. Our ppm was much lower, but still the issue of low production. We will wait until Derek leaves until we do more work, as there is a slim chance of failure, and we do not want to be without the water maker while he is visiting.
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Water maker membrane change over |
Later in the day the anchorage got rolly - must have been with the tide change, so we moved to a different spot in the bay, which made it tolerable for the night.
Tuesday Derek arrived in the morning, no issues, and after he was on the boat we hoisted anchor and headed back to the St. Thomas cruise ship anchorage. Lumpy anchorage, so after anchoring, we got off the boat, and headed for lunch as Derek was quite hungry after his overnight flight. Nice lunch out at Smoking Rooster, then on the bus to the grocery store to get fresh stuff and anything Derek needed. We also dumped out trash and got dinghy gas.
Saw this guy hanging off the side of a mega yacht cleaning on the way back in the boat. I guess if he falls, he just gets wet.
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Got to keep it clean |
Back to the boat, where we hoisted anchor and moved back over to Brewer's Bay where the water was flat and clear. Poor Derek was exhausted at this point and fell asleep on the way over, and did not even wake up for anchor dropping.
Wednesday Derek had to work, so it was a boat day. It was also baking day. Dean made cinnamon rolls, and Kris made her oat walnut breakfast bread.
Thursday Derek also worked, but we took a break and went for a nice snorkel, and saw 4 sea turtles, and 4 rays, but that was about it. The bottom is mostly sand, grass, weed with few small coral areas. But we did get within 5 to 10 feet of the sea turtles who had no fear, so that was cool. - Forgot to take the camera - so no photo.
Thursday evening, Kris went to wash up dishes, and had no water. The water tank was half full, but the pump was not turning on. Checked the electrical quickly, and all was good. Luckily we had a spare fresh water pump on board, so Dean did a quick swap over, and we were back in business. Why do things like this always happen when you have guests?
Friday morning, Kris did a deep investigation on the broken water pump, as it was only two years old. Did not really see any issues, but learned a bit about the pump construction. Think it is just a bad pressure switch. Dean made some fresh bread as well.
Dean worked on installing a part Derek had 3D printed for us. We hope it will fix the boom vang banging a bit.
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Dean installing the custom-made parts |
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Dean's bread is getting pretty perfect looking. |
In the afternoon we upped anchor and had a fast but lumpy downwind sail over to Culebra, Bahia de Almodover. Seas were 4 to 6 feet and winds 15 to 20 with gust to 30. We just used our jib, and averaged over 7 knots for the 2.5 hour trip.
Bahia de Almodover was flat calm, and beautiful as always.
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View from boat, anchored in Bahia de Almodover |
Saturday afternoon, we headed into Culebra proper, as we wanted Zaco's Tacos for Dinner. Got a good anchorage spot, but the bay here does have some chop from the winds. Dean and Derek went in and fetched dinner and brought it back to the boat, as Zaco's Tacos usually has some biting bugs around, and if you don't want to dose your legs in bug spray, it's better not to eat there.
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Derek remembered Zaco's Tacos from when he was on the boat with us in 2013-2014 |
While the guys got dinner, Kris worked on putting a quick cover on the table, as we have worn through the layers of varathane down to the paper chart in some areas, and the table is getting sticky from the decoupage material we used. We will have to redo the table soon. Kris found an extra large Bahamas flag we bought by accident off Amazon, and rigged up some sticky Velcro to hold it to the table.