Sailing around the World.
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Thu 23 Sep 2010 01:00
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WEDNESDAY 22nd
SEPTEMBER 2010
It was a wet morning, so we just remained on board
and downloaded photo's onto a memory stick
and did some emails and the blog.
We replaced the annodes on the prop. shaft and
propellor itself, the existing ones had dissapeared completly.
and they were new ones put on in Tahiti last
April, They did not last too long.
Skipper enjoyed using his diving gear to do the
job, His 7lb gas bottle is as neat as a pin, but on the other hand
will only last 40 mins
underwater at 2 metres..
Later, we checked the rig and skipper tried in vain
to refeed the spinniker halyard down through the mast... there was a blockage at
the spreaders.
It was a great sight from the top of the
mast, the beautifull colours of the water and all the palm trees on
Direction Island.
We spent the rest of the day just pottering around
and of course did some swimming offf the boat before eventually going ashore to
the Island and spending an hour or so in the water. Terry and skipper did a
little exploring of the Island, the east side where the onshore
breeze
comes in, was covered in rubbish, all blown from
Indonesia and Bali. One could start a plastic recycling plant here on its
own with all
the plastic bottles and that kind of
stuff.
Later we returned to the boat where we decided to
have a G & T while the roast chicken was cooking in the oven
Skipper did the Gins, while Terry got out the
tonic,
Terry poured the tonic into the gins, but it looked
very flat, and tasted afull, Cripes! that tonic is gone off, yeach
!!!!
We returned to the cockpit with our yeach drinks
and as we discussed the tast, Aileen says casually, " Oh , by the way, I
put water in the big tonic bottle , so dont try that in your gins. "
too late love . already done, so back to the galley and redo the
lot........
The dinner was a rooled and stuffed chicken we got
in Darwin, I mentioned these before, and they taste great.
with creamed spuds, roast potatoes, and green peas
for colour, the whole thing was yum, yum,
We all had an early night, listening to the strong
breeze blowing outside and happily snugged up in our bunks.
Thats all for today,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde ( skipper
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