Big day minus Two

Zepher
Chris & Lyn Darch
Wed 16 Apr 2008 02:19
Big Day minus Two
 
14/04/08
 
Hi Folks,
 
Well the start of this week marks the end of our incasaration at the Colon end of the canal , it started early with a trip to the House of Batteries to collect a new engine start battery , one of the two engine start batteries gave up the ghost yesterday just another casualty "Equipment Failure Fairy" entrapment , it seems to strike when least expected ..
The Rhythm crew came over last night for a meal , and consumption of alcohol ... plus a game of Donkey , cards that is ..an amusing game of trust !
 After a morning with the clearance agent ,,, 2 hr wait to be told he could not now do the clearance till Wed morning and that our ropes would not be ready till then we sauntered back to Zepher , the story I am about to tell you you may find a tad harrowing , on my return , Lyn Rob and Ruth related the story as follows ..
 There were once two elderly Italian bellas who visited a friends floating castle , it was a nice big floating castle they were so taken with it that on arrival they didn't tie there dingy off properly ... after looking round the floating castle they saw there pride and joy floating off down the main channel of the Panama canal .. they said Oh dear what shall we do , they jumped in the harbour and started to swim after there dingy , as there was 15 to 20 knts of wind blowing through the harbour there dingy was moving along at a fair pace  ... 2 to 4 knts .. there swim speed was much less as after a 300m they couldn't catch there dingy and had become quite exhausted .. good job a large yacht was anchored on the edge of the zone .. it was at this point that the cries for help were heard by Ruth,Lyn and Rob , one was found hanging onto the anchor chain , the other one was floating down tied behind the boat , Rob and Ruth jumped into our dingy and chased after boat and swimmer / drowned .. Lyn threw a line to the anchor hanger and hauled her aboard whilst the others rescued both boat and person ..
 
 
The Crew
Chris,Lyn,Ruth & Rob