Car Rental

The three adjacent boats next to us leave in the morning for Norman Island in the Exumas. Linda and I talk to a couple on a larger sailboat further out on the dock who was here for a couple days for repairs. Their hydraulic steering developed a leak and they were running out of fluid and the ability to steer their boat. Their solution to reach Nassau was to use the couple gallons of high grade cooking oil that they were bringing here for a local friend. I hope he did not pay in advance.

Made my heavy duty outboard bracket and painted it. Linda does laundry to get ready for our son Dana and daughter-in-law Lori coming tomorrow. We rent a car for the next two days to pick them up and see more of the island. For dinner we make a reservation at the Nassau Yacht club. We have another nice dinner and have an enjoyable conversation with a local couple who eat there often and we saw last Saturday. We are the only ones there for dinner and they both insist on driving us back to the marina. Interestingly our credit card gets declined when we use it to pay for dinner. We head over to Starbucks to buy a cup of coffee with the card to confirm if there is a problem, declined again. Linda calls Chase via Skype and finds they put a hold to get us to check in. After all our recent expenses in the Bahamas suddenly a charge shows up in Florida, our new rudder and they are concerned. Hold removed and we are back in business.