Today we ran a bunch of errands - grocery store, chandlery, and Radio Shack. Everything was just a short walk from the boat so it was convenient. Afterwards we returned to the boat for a fun day of cleaning and maintenance. While Kevin lubricated the windlass (for hauling up the anchor) and changed the oil in the genset, I cleaned the interior of the boat and started on the laundry. It is really awesome to have a washer/dryer on the boat. There is always a line at the marina laundry and at $3+ per load it can get expensive. The marina is charging us an outrageous sum for water for the boat ($10/day whether we use 1 gallon or 20), so we figure we will use as much as we can and get all our clothes and linens clean while we're here.
Kevin also managed to hook up the free satellite cable! We have normal TV! Of course the one channel we really wanted (Comedy Central) is scrambled. So no "Daily Show" for us. Funny thing is after surfing through 100 channels we realized that there was really nothing on anyway!
Then it was time to change the oil in the diesel engines. The previous owner installed these electric oil pumps that make it really easy -- just flick a switch to pump the bad oil into a bucket and then pour in the new oil. It is so easy even I could do it. However the one on the starboard engine wouldn't pump for some reason. After messing with it for an hour, Kevin found the problem -- the impeller had lost all its teeth and they were clogging up the pump. So after Kevin dug out the old impeller and teeth and replaced it (thank goodness we have loaded up on spares) the pump worked like a champ.
So that was our day today. Not very exciting, but if you don't keep up on the maintenance it can come back to haunt you later. Tomorrow hopefully we'll have something interesting as we're hoping to do some more sightseeing -- the Pirates museum (aaarrrgh!) and also the Bacardi factory.
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