Sailing around the World
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sat 19 Feb 2011 16:15
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FRIDAY 18th
FEBRUARY 2011
It rained all night again last night, but its
another beautifull hot sunny morning in down town Salvador,
Skipper took an early taxi to the sail loft " Vinx
" and was shown over every mm of the parasail by Paulo, The bosses
father,
as the boss " Edwardo" had gone off racing
yachts, They did a good job by the look of things, but, we really
wont know
untill we fly it again,
The taxi journey was gas and a 10 min journey took
about 20 mins because the driver ( despite having paulo on the phone
giving directions, ) just kept getting lost ,
ahhhhhhhhhhh, however, skipper agreed a price before leaving, so no meter runnig
here.
Aileen went off for breckfast with Christos and
Yorg, and we are going to some fancy restaurant with them as well tonight.
Back on board , skipper decided to change the oil ,
oil filters, annode,coolents, and fuel filter on the generator, all this took
about an hour,
then skipper strted the engine to make sure there
were no oil leaks, Ohhhh, yes, its running very nicely, and so it
should, this thing
will be overworked because of the batteries,
However, there was water dripping out of the salt water pump to the cooling
system,
opppps! that not good,
We have a spare pump on board, so skipper decided
to change it completly, an easy enough looking job, thats untill it was being
put back together, the boss just could not get the pipes to connect,,, frig,
whats wrong here! they were too short,
Oh gawd ! rang marcelo and asked him if he could
get a longer pipe for a distraught skipper, what next ! ! he said he
could
so at least that solves that, but it would be
tomorrow when he comes with the pipe, flip that,
Skipper wanders back to the boat and sat looking at
this engine, with bits all over the floor....... you know how it gets.
Gawd
what a mess, oh how stupid, ! then began to
think about the pump again , we checked that they were exactly the same
before
taking off the old one, so why are the 2 pipes
not fitting back properly. could it be on the wrong way around !
So Skipper got busy again, removed the new pump, swopped all the
fittings around and re fitted
the
pump upside down, and walla, it worked, and all the pipes fitted.
Ohhh skipper, you stupid
ejitt , how could you make such a
fundemental error, but, but now, St Anthony was sent to find the
fault
and he did.. now we got everything back together , started the engine again, and
it was humming perfectly, and no dripping water.
Skipper polished up the ss trays under the engine,
put back the housings, got rid of all the rubbish and was delighted with
himself again,
Shortly,after, Skipper had a shower and put on
clean clothes for the trip to dinner, Aileen arrived back just in time to go out
again and
the 4 of us , S & A , Christos, and Yorg, got a
taxi to the restaurant,
This was basically helpyour self to all the side
dishes, such as Rockford luttice and cheese, hot potatoes, cold potato salad,
picckled
onions, beetroot, cold slaw, asperigus, sauces and
salad creams, and hundres of other things we never saw before, like
cold chunks of crispy smoked belly pork, crispy
bacon, soft cheese balls, yougarts, etc. etc.
All to die for stuff, actually , they had
most of skippers favourate foods,
But, but, the meat, This was delivered to the table
by the many waiters on huge 3 pronged forks, and the variety included
serloin beef,
filet beef, ( well done, rare, or blue, or whatever way you wanted ) beef on the bone, with
lots of fat if required, ( yum, yum, ) sausages,
Pork , lamb, chicken, and we cant remember the
rest, but what a feast,
The dinner took a couple of hours, while we
discussed the sailing plans for tomorrow morning, It now turns out that
there are only one or two suitable stops on the way
to Ricife, and would involve 2 nights at sea, no matter what we did,
Skipper and Aileen decided that we would rethink
our leaving tomorrow for Ricife, If we remain here and sail around
the Islands in
this wonderfull bay for 4/5 days, we could still
make Ricefe in 2 nights sailing direct.
We all had a night cap and looked over our
photo's on " A Lady " before retiring to the scratchers,
An interesting and varied day,
that it.
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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