I had made a mistake thinking we had anodes for the Sleipner bow thruster onboard (they are consumed rapidly) but I found none onboard.

Gavi , the harbourmaster told us the only place that might have was Forrest Marine in the city of Boca Chica three hours drive away. Since we also needed some more bunker and a supermarket we decided to go having ther car only one day more.

The drive to Boca Chica was a nuisance with dangerous traffic, a police control that stopped us for driving to fast and multiple highway tax stops who only took Dominican pesos that we were short of. Finally in Boca Chica 30mins before closure of the marine store no Forrest Marine was to find. With help of locals we finally found it but with the name Pronautica. They had 1 anod we could purchase and then they closed. 

Looking for somewhere to eat by the beach a local man waved us in to a parking place and guided us to a small beach restaurant where some locals had picnic. We ordered the only thing they had-fish and chips. When the bill came it was 15.000Dom pesos/300Usd !!

We started to argue and were brought to the office where they redid the bill to 234Usd ! I refused to pay and gave them 100Usd while Mercedes was taking photographs of the Restaurant signs. After some hours bunker in the supermarket we started the 3hour drive back in darkness. After an hour of driving the car was more and more strange in the front section and once in a gas station we found the left front wheel empty with a 2cm long screw driven into it. We changed to sparetyre and continued with more and more crazy traffic (many cars and even worse, the motor cycles don¨t have lights). One hour from Samana the road was totally blocked due to a traffic accident with several cars involved with chaos surrounding the cue that rapidly built up. We managed to turn around and Mercedes got in contact with Freddy who had rented us the car. He gave us another small country side road to bypass the accident and around midnight we were finally back in the marina. Once in bed relaxing the freshwater  pump started intermittently. This means leak in the domestic water system and was again traced to the pex piping of the aft cabin (supplying freshwater on deck).

Since also toilets are dependent of a working domestic water system I spent 2 hours replacing the broken piping segment.

So many unlikely events and all for an anod the size of a coin.