2015 0111

We are at Spanish Wells waiting on a part.  Hopefully, it comes in Tuesday.  It's the sea water cooling pump for the port engine.  The one in it now is leaking, but working enough that I run it for docking only.  I ordered the pump back in Lucaya with a 6 day delivery expectation.  They only get mail here twice a week though.  That puts us at Tuesday or Friday.  Not a big deal.  We were planning on doing a few days of maintenance and beach time.  We're going to pick up the pace significantly after this.

We're up at 0530 every day now.  We're on the schedule to be up before the sun so we can depart at first daylight.  I should say that I'm up at 0530.  The princess (aka Senior Captain) is still sleeping at 0745.

We are in the harbor and the wind has been howling.  We're not as protected against the current and the waves as we had been but it's not bad.  I dive on the anchor each time to verify it's set, but this time it didn't completely disappear into the sand as it had the previous times.  It did look set well enough and has been holding great.  We've had anchor alarms set on our phone which we made very sensitive.  They only went off twice last night which my princess will say way she hasn't slept well after she gets up after 12 hours in bed.  We had a day in the sun as well yesterday to tire her out. 

We're both still recovering from sailing all night as well.  Ouida did much better than I expected pulling her weight with the watches.  She was too nervous to be useful on night watch when sailed our trimaran in the past.  She woke me more than a few times but not too bad and that's what she's supposed to do when she gets nervous about something.  It was usually just ships on radar that were still 4 miles away.  Four miles between big freighters at night is attention worthy.  She learned to relax and not wake me.  I think the freighters tried to avoid us by at least 1.5 miles and we felt the same. 

Actually, boat life is tiring as well as being in the sun.  We're always doing something even when we're doing nothing.  Just to go to the beach we have to lower and raise the dinghy (dink for short).  Even though the dinghy only draws 4 inches at the stern we still managed to beach it.  We went to the beach at high tide.  The water ebbed away about 20 feet at the beach which was not big deal, but then on the way back we ran into water that was only 2 inches deep.  We ended up pulling and pushing the dink for about 400 yards through the sand.  It was a workout which we wanted anyways.  A lazy man would have just waited for the tide to come back in an hour or two.

It's windy here with short bouts of rain this morning.  The boats mild rocking messes with my mouse control, but I don't think that would hurt my poor video game skills any way.