Georgetown, Bingo

Again, we listen to the 8:00 clock net. This time I turn our radio power from 1W to 25W in case someone could of not hear my request for the particular impeller that I needed. This time I go into a more detail. A short while later I get a response on the VHF and connect up the Dale McDaniel on “MokaKat”, a Leopard Catamaran. He has a couple spares for his Rainman. We quickly hop in the dinghy and head to his boat. I of course wear Leopard Catamaran baseball cap.

He also learned the hard way previously that you need to have some spares. His son is flying down in the next couple week and will be bringing other boat parts and now another extra impeller, which I funded. We are very happy to get the impeller. Our only other real option was to have one shipped via Amazon to the Watermakers Air office in Fort Lauderdale to be put on their daily flight to Staniel Cay. We would have to sail north 50 miles or so to pick it up.

 

Linda visiting with Sherry Haefele from Ithaca, NY while doing Laundry. She and her Husband are RVer's who many be "Mooch Docking" in our driveway some day and us in theirs.

We then head into town to the local laundry-mat. Not the best laundry we have been too, but adequate. We run into Mark and Karen in the Exuma Market decide to go to lunch. We wind up at a place that is very hard to find, no sign on the building. Food was good but seating and location was greatly lacking. Hopefully this fellow can take care of the seating and signage and be successful.

We head back to Exuma Market and get some fresh produce and a pint of Ben & Jerry's for immediate consumption, as Mark and Karen had just done. Since they were finished when we got out of the Market, and the Ice Cream was well frozen (rare in the Bahamas), we quickly ran back to the boat and ate half and put the rest in the freezer for after dinner. Meanwhile Mark and Karen go to the Tourism office to arrange a rental car for tomorrow. We have been here 4 times but have not seem much of the land side of Great Exuma.

I make up the bed and then head back into Georgetown to refill 3 - 5 gallon diesel rail cans that I just transferred into the boat fuel tank. I also fill the 5 gallon rail gas can and the 6 gallon dinghy fuel can. 

 

 

This evening someone on a nearby Catamaran has a piano concert for people to attend sitting in their dinghies, sounds like fun. I get back from town a little late and head over by myself, Linda is not interested.

 

 

 

I miss Mark and Karen, but do run into Alain and Diane and meet a few other interesting folks. We have late shower and a later dinner.

Party is over, everyone heads "home"

Georgetown Harbor, Great Exuma on the left (west) and Stocking Island on the right (east)