New Rudder installed

Up early to finish drilling out the ½ inch diameter holes with my borrowed electric drill. 

Old rudder down, New rudder installed

By 10:00 AM I have the rudder and steering quadrant reassembled and we are ready to be launched. 

Reassembling the steering stuff, down in the aft port locker

We motor back to the Nassau Harbor Club and start cleaning the boat and putting everything back in place. The boat is whole again and we are nearly ready to continue our travels. We need to do some provisioning before we leave for the Exhumas. In the afternoon we walk over to Harborside Marine, the Yamaha dealer and order a new 15 Hp Yamaha outboard. I figured I better get moving since our Canadian friends from Nova Scotia had just bought one this morning and there are only one or two more in stock. We will have it delivered tomorrow morning. I will need to make a harness to attach it to our engine lift, another sewing project for tomorrow.

We then walk to the downtown Scotia Bank to hit the ATM that provides US cash without any “exchange” rate fees. It is just like using an ATM at home in Vermont. This is one of two locations that let you withdraw US funds. Bahamian money is pegged to the US dollar one to one and both currencies are used here interchangeably. So I have no idea why there is and “exchange” rate charged on withdrawing money in Bahamian currency.

Green Parrot

We stop on the way back to the boat at the Green Parrot for an early dinner. A nice warm sunny afternoon with light breezes. Have not seen temperatures in the low 80's since the first day or two at Bimini over six weeks ago. Hopefully this is the start of more seasonable weather for the next couple months. The last two nights are the first time in the last couple weeks we have not been able to hear the constant high winds whistling through the rigging on the dock. It is strangely quiet.