Wind 15 – 20 Knts
Another day of repairs.
I have discovered the reason everything broke when Molly and Des were sailing with us. Molly brought bananas on board and supposedly bananas on a boat are bad luck, but then so is whistling on the boat, changing its name (that’s already been done before we bought it), suitcases on board and leaving port on a Friday. I don’t think we can really blame Molly.
There are many reasons that form the basis of the superstition surrounding bananas on board from deadly spiders to toxic fumes but the most popular is that at the height of the trading empire between Spain and the Caribbean in the 1700’s, most cases of disappearing ships happened to be carrying a cargo of bananas at the time.
When I tried to access my emails last night I couldn’t so I rode round to Cannonvale this morning to give the computer back to the repair man to retrieve my emails. On my return John was up at the cafe reading the paper, waiting for the fellow from Steve Becker Welding and fabrication to bring the repaired prodder down to the marina. As he was going to be a while we grabbed a quick cheap breaky at Barcelona’s then trolleyed the prodder down to the boat.
John and I then rode to Marlin Marine at Jubilee Pocket out on the road to Shute Harbour to pick up the spliced prodder stays. The 8 kms was an interesting ride as I hadn’t been that way for many years, the footpath ran almost all the way out there so we were able to stay off the road.
We left Morgan on the boat as it was too far for her to run and she would have slowed us down. She is really good at staying on the boat these days she doesn’t get off at all, she just positions herself somewhere where she can see us arriving back.
On our return to O’vive we bolted the prodder back in place with some difficulty as we had to do it from the dinghy and tensioned the dyneema stays.
The Raymarine fellows came on dusk to see if they could sort out our autopilot problem, they have removed the gyro from the corse computer to see if that makes a difference. Not sure how we will know if it has helped as the problem with the auto pilot is not consistent.
Quiet night on the boat with reheated fish pie for dinner.