The Bilge Pump Works!
Karma Daze
Chris and Penny Manley
Tue 1 Apr 2014 14:03
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Tuesday 25th March – Thursday 27th
March.
We have spent these few days shopping, cleaning
and making sure everything works. We have a water maker which we had “pickled”
whilst we were in the UK so this needed unpickling. That is flushing the
pickling chemicals out with fresh water. Unfortunately the captain and
general handyman had not made sure the pipe for taking the water out of the
machine into the sea was firmly attached. We were alerted to the fact that
the water was going into the boat by the automatic bilge pump alarm going
off! At least it is good to know it works OK.
On Thursday we went out into Rodney Bay with
Vision and anchored while Chris and Vision scraped all the barnacles etc off the
bottom. Vision did this by free diving, but Chris had to use his scuba
equipment as he can’t hold his breath for very long. We were pleased that
our expensive anti-fouling is doing its job and there was no growth or slime
just barnacles.
Liz and Keith were due to arrive this evening
coming via Antigua but there flight from Gatwick has been delayed by a couple of
hours so they will miss their connection to St Lucia, so will be arriving at
06.30 tomorrow morning. |