Arrival Rodney Bay Marina
Bonkers
Donald Macdonald
Thu 7 Mar 2024 13:34
The wind stayed up overnight to St Lucia, in fact so much wind required 2 reefs in the main. Arrived in marina 0900 yesterday (Wednesday) morning. Checking in with immigration and customs thought would be easy as been here before, no they have added extra forms to be filled in online for immigration and some of the dropdowns do not have all options for yacht arrivals. Eventually sorted. Boat washed down, ice cream had, shower etc. John and I were hoping to have the yachtmans breakfast here. The restuarant that did it no longer does breakfast. The breakfast we wanted included a rum punch. Ah well I'll be healthy and stay with my bowl of frosties, Emma and John find a bakery for fresh croissants or similar.
This morning investigated Harold Snr fault of losing Rudder position information and also the main GPS antenna ZG100 being intermittent losing satellites. These units and the bluetooth autopilot controller on same group of 'T' pieces connected to the backbone. 'T' pieces replaced by a 4 way unit rudder position and ZG100 data back online. Sailing when boats move around will be the proof that is the fix and we will not get the annoying alarms always going off. Tomorrow only a 10 mile sail to Marigot and not expecting bouncy conditions.
A couple more jobs to be done today including re-furling the assymetric that did not wrap perfectly on last race we did. Put some water onboard as I am getting complaints about the water in front tank that was loaded in UK last October, the aft tank is empty. Tastes OK to me in coffee and squash.