Another hot day dawns

Richard, our friend and neighbour from Nungurner and third crew member arrives today. Hope he's not too jet lagged because Ivan has all sorts of jobs lined up for him :)

The Garmin chartplotter is being installed today - i think Richard and I are expected to become experts in how to use it. Our emergency watermaker,  to supplement our water tanks which we don't think are quite adequate, has arrived. At least it will be good exercise as it is hand operated and 1 hour pumping gives you one gallon of water.

We picked up the new stove yesterday - very bright and shiny. The old one was a shocker with rust dropping off it constantly. Just ordered a pressure cooker from Amazon. I'll be a sea-going domestic goddess before you know it.

Indiantown Marina

The outside eating area at the marina



There's an alligator in there somewhere!



Across from where we are in the workyard, it's a sea of sticks in the storage yard. Many people cruise the Bahamas from here and return before the hurricane season to store their boats here for many months or even years before they come back to go sailing again. The storage yard is also called the graveyard......

Never let this happen to your yacht



The tree in this picture is growing out of the deck of the boat



The town of Indiantown

 This is what our local town looks like - above is the small group of shops where we can pick up groceries, The little white building with the blue roof is where we get our drinking water from (as the water at the marina tastes horrible).

And this is what the main street looks like on a pretty normal day.

Our home for now

Brio in the marina workyard.

The workyard is a reasonably pleasant place to be as far as these things go - shady palms behind the boat with lizards, squirrels and birds. The windows on the boat look at bit funny because it's actually plastic sheeting taped on while we wait for new windows to be made.



This is what we look like in our work clothes, although not always smiling!



The new anchor well after the welder men had finished with it.



We have had to do a lot of repairs to Brio - Florida's weather is not kind to boats, especially steel ones that rust.



The green bit at the bottom of the keel is new steel that has been welded on.



Brio on the inside  (on a day when we are being reasonably tidy)