George Town - Water, Water, Everywhere

So our clark pump for our watermaker finally arrived on Monday. And when I say "arrived on Monday" I really mean that it has been here since Thursday, only they delivered it to the wrong place. The package was addressed to us care of Exuma Markets and we had been checking in with them daily for almost a week, when finally on Monday Kevin happened to walk past a place called Forbes shipping where a surly man surrounded by FedEx packages was less than helpful. Kevin actually located the package himself.

He spent most of Monday installing the new pump and then when we tried out the watermaker, to our delight we found that we had tripled our watermaking capacity from 3.5 gallons an hour to 9 gallons. It may not be that exciting to those of you who just turn on the faucet to get water, but for us this increase in output means that we don't have to haul our laundry ashore, and we don't have to haul water jugs back and forth to supplement the watermaker anymore. So we are overjoyed to have a working watermaker again.

I was so excited to finally get some laundry done. Early Tuesday I had everything sorted and Kevin went to fire up the generator. Our washing machine runs on 120 volt AC, which means that running the genset while doing laundry is required. I am all ready to put the first load in when -- cough! sputter! -- the genset shuts down. It seems like it's always something! So Kevin and I spent most of Tuesday troubleshooting what turned out to be a fuel starvation problem. After changing the fuel filter and clearing out air in the fuel line, we were back in business and able to run the washing machine.

Now if only our outboard propeller would get here...