Fixing Things In Beautiful Places

Woke on this morning in paradise. I need a cup of coffee to start my morning so I flipped the switch for the generator. It fired right up like usual, but shut itself off 2 seconds later. Damn! I called Al & he tried it. Same thing, it ran for 2 seconds, then shut down. Now we're in trouble because I really need my coffee, not to mention everything else the generator does for us. Not to worry, Al the trusty mechanic can handle it. He pulled out a sensor & the generator ran fine. I had my coffee & we were able to run the electric winches to raise the dinghy so we cold continue our travels. Al knows he has a replacement sensor buried somewhere in the bilge. He'll find it later, install it & we'll be good as new.

We headed back to Marsh Harbour because we wanted to be there to see Junkanoo. Because of the morning generator problems we never had breakfast. We figured we would have a nice lunch at the restaurant by the marina. We figured wrong! We were leaving the boat & when I went to lock the boat the key turned half way & then jammed. I couldn't unlock the door or get the key out. Now Hooper is locked inside & we're locked out. We have a side door, but that key was locked safely inside the boat. Al would have to break into his own boat. He borrowed a metal coat hanger & some other tools from our friend Ron. He managed to unlock a side window & climb in. He got all his tools out & went to work on the door. A metal pin inside the lock that holds a spring in place had broken off. He drilled out the broken piece, put a screw in it's place & put the lock back together. Once again we're good as new. Now we're headed for a really late lunch.

At least we're doing much better than the captain in the pictures who ran his ship aground when entering the harbor.