Water, Water Nowhere 14:26.7N 53:10.5W
Sonar
Ray
Sat 5 Dec 2009 03:00
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THE GREAT WATER HUNT
Today, the 4th of December, was the day Sonar's
crew discovered that the fresh water tank was dry. How had this happened? They
had left Las Galletas with a full tank of 1000 litres plus. After a week at sea
it still registered a full ten bars on the gauge,but fell to 9 bars on the tenth
day and 8 bars on the following day. At this point they instituted water
saving measures such as flushing the heads with sea water and cooking the
tatties and rice in 50/50 sea water/freshers. To no avail! The bars
diminished rapidly until on day 18 no bars were present. Where had it gone? who
had used it?
"Not me" said Ted sitting in his
bath sipping red wine.
"Not me " said Captain Ray
standing in the shower downing a cold beer.
"Not me" said John who
was washing his clothes while drinking his 10th mug of tea that
morning.
So, the great water hunt was on.
The crew searched high and low, but mostly low, in an attempt to find where it
had gone. Not in the bilge, not in the lockers, not in the lazarette. It
couldn't be traced. They just had to face it, it was all gone. What could be
done? Ted volunteered that when he needed water at Glenhead, he drilled for it.
The other two thought this was not a good idea. Ray said we could drink
beer instead as we had a vast store of it on board. John enquired whether there
was any dehydrated water in the dry goods locker. None of this
helped.
However, just in time, the three
old codgers recovered from their sleep-deprived memory loss and recalled
that they had loaded ten 10 litre bottles of fresh water in Las Galletas the
night before leaving. That would easily see them home and dry, or home and wet
anyway. So all's well that ends well.
"We could still drink beer
instead" said Ray. All agreed!
JF December 2009
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