For the last couple of nights, on my way home, the moon
hasn’t risen, so it’s pitch black, and my dinghy outboard leaves a bright green
trail of bio luminescence. I went round in circles, dipped my hand in and
watched the amazing bright green sparkles.
On Monday I had to clean my propeller so I jumped into Lime
Tree Bay. Big mistake. I wore a long sleeved shirt, which helped (it was
covered in shrimp when I got out), but I scraped off a whole load of crap and
got attacked and stung/bitten by something all over my neck. Maybe jelly fish,
or sea lice. So very itchy.
I borrowed a pair of bolt cutters and trimmed my anchor
chain. The rust was worse than I thought; I cut sixty feet off one end, and
another sixty feet off the other. I only have thirty feet of good chain left.
I’ve attached that to the anchor with a new shackle, and at the other end I’ve
got one hundred feet of nylon rode, eye spliced over a thimble and another new
shackle. It means a new (much lighter) way of anchoring for me, that I’m going
to try.
My Garmin chart plotter arrived and is now installed. I was
hoping it would be an easy swap, but none of the cables, or fittings were the
same as my old one. I had to do rewiring, and then mount it in my cockpit. I’ll be ready to sail round to George Town in a couple of days.
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