Albert Marine Services

Up early to stop by Albert Marine Services to discuss the rudder repair. They do not have a press big enough to bend it and doing so would probably further weaken the rudder. He recommends that they send it out to be cut and re-welded. I am skeptical that the heat of welding will not be a problem and stress that the welding site has to be ground to less that the original post diameter to be able to fit back in the rudder tube. I acquiesce to his recommendations.

I spend most of the morning cleaning the hull and removing the last three months of scuff marks from various dockings. Linda spends her morning cleaning the interior. We walk to downtown Nassau for Lunch at Rachel’s Take a Way. It was recommended by some cruising friends. They do have a couple tables inside, but most people are here for take out. We are the only non-locals here. Linda and I share a fried fish lunch, chunks of fish with skin, bones and meat. Rather interesting meal. We have fun talking with a few of the regular patrons. We then head downtown to an ice cream shop and then to the bank to replenish our cash which got decimated paying for our towing. We stop by Fresh Market early in the evening for a rotisserie chicken. Should of gotten it in the morning, it is now over-cooked and dry after spending most of the day under heat lamps. By now the bones are almost edible.

Each evening the boatyard is locked and we have to have the security guards let us out and back in. We have their phone numbers to call them from the gate, Sean and Cherise. We come back after dark and the temperature is about 70 with the wind blowing, and Cherise is wearing a heavy jacket and a wool hat with earflaps, which I have to tease her about, since we are in T-shirts and shorts.