The flip side of paradise

Dear friends,

Before we continue posting about our travels, this post is about something else. We don't want to create the false impression that we are just bumming around, holiday 24/7, and not a worry on our minds...Boat maintenance, repairs, and things that were working absolutely perfect yesterday, but crashed today.... All of that and more, also make part of the livingaboard experience, and we just deal with it, the moment those kind of issues appear. 
Truth must be told: fixing things on a boat is still better in the tropics then in higher latitudes...
Here a current to do list:
* checking battery bank, and organizing shorepower hook up
* solving fresh watertank puzzle ( seems we cant use the starboard tank for some mysterious reason)
* DVD repair
* verifying solarpanel electrical production
* changing oil and fuel filters ( on of my favourites)
* fixing the washdown pressure pump
* fixing the ice box compartement of the fridge
* fixing the dinghy... It is leaking(slowly), and now everytime before using I have to pump it up...


You guys get the picture.... In the meantime it doesn't stop us from going to new places, checking different cultures, food and meeting people.

Battery bank, still ok?

Flat dinghy

A great week to all.

Best regards
Pieter

Almost ready…

Dear Friends,
From a hot and steamy Trinidad, some pics to show what has been done so far… A big thanks to my friend Rodrigo, great support, help, and solutions…
Hopefully the Onda Boa can go back into the water this wednesday…
Check it out, here is the new installed Spectra WaterMaker

It runs of 12 V, and produces aprox 40 liters/hour, fresh water out of the seawater and in order to have enough energy to do this,   two more solar panels (now 5 in total) have been installed.

Also, the two halyards (of the main sail and the genaker sail) have been replaced

Now, Onda Boa starts looking like new..

Almost every day, visiting the nautical gear shops (spending $$ on equipements, parts and so on), working in the tropical heat, boat getting dirty (dust) and looking like a mess (despite the efforts to keep everything clean..) I am done with being on the land, and even Lucky seems to ask.. Are we finished yet….??

Stay tuned for more updates…
All the best

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