Antigua - Jolly Harbour Marina - Day 5
Rainmaker
Donald Macdonald
Thu 29 Apr 2021 18:15
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Successful trip into St John's for PCR test, It was the
gentlest push of swab up the nose. Expect results back this
afternoon.
Whilst in St John's checked where Customs &
Immigration located for quick trip in Friday to clear Antigua as the facility in
Jolly Harbour has been closed since Covid started.
Today more jobs completed:
Aft cabin cleaned, and checked remaining packets of
biscuits and no hidden/lost supplies of sweets or even methanol for the EFOY
cell, none found.
Took boat over to fuel dock to fill up with diesel and
refill jerry can. Whilst there one of the dockhands mentioned he refills Gaz
bottles for 40EC so he has our empty one, just hope he did not lie and it is
butane that goes in and not propane. Fill far cheaper than UK.
With tank full calibrated the sender at full as had done
empty when tank was removed a couple of days ago.
Dinghy checked for scrapes and tears and all bad one
repaired with hypalon patches, tomorrow will deflate and pack away.
All rechargeable tool batteries back at full
charge.
Spare water containers being cleaned with Aqua
Fresh.
Drive shaft gland seal lubricated.
Last night noticed the battery state was very low so
switched off fridge and inverter to save power. Today worked out why the lack of
charge the solar panels had gone on strike all because the circuit breaker in
the battery line to the controller had a bad connection. Wire was very hot. All
secured properly again and full charging. As the charge was low and middle of
the day for the 1st time saw the solar panel giving 400 watts of power
out.
Friday night one of the restaurants is doing 2 for
1 steaks, so we are booked in as told normally very
popular.
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