Good God It's Friday!

'Plan B' at Port Denison

Happy Easter to all. We met at the Beach Cafe for breakfast and Karen & Mike had somehow persuaded her Mum and Dad to drive up with replacement parts for Aqua Vitae and Divided Sky who were having bad problems with their wind generators.

Having access to a car, the lads took advantage of the opportunity to load the empty diesel jerry cans and head for the servo where Mike thought it would be a good idea to wash the forecourt with diesel from the fast flow pump. After cleaning that up we headed back to the dinghys to load the fuel on board the boats and prepare for yet another sundowner on Aqua Vitae.

No shopping today, everything shut for Good Friday, but there's always tomorrow.

Tomorrow became today (Saturday) and still having a 'slightly' overheating genset I thought it prudent to check the second heat exchanger and sure enough the upper chamber had a blockage too. The high tech 'bent coat hanger' treatment worked a treat and allowed me to flush the system completely. The outflow from the side of the boat seems normal again so I'm keeping my fingers crossed this time. Why is it that these jobs always take much longer than the estimate? Nick calls it the 'Boat Factor' and it works like "2 hours to the power of boat factor".

After sundowner on Moonshadow we prepare to leave Port Denison and hoist Toby on deck again. Tomorrow we set sail for Geraldton.