Marsh Harbor, again

Well we are still in Marsh Harbor. On Friday with our raw water strainer leaking big time and our fridge not working at all, we decided we had better make a determined effort to get assistance before everything closed up for the weekend. We removed the broken bolt on the strainer and John took a taxi to a distant boatyard to have a new bolt fabricated to fit. It only took a few hours once we figured out who could do the job so we were very hopeful that the strainer issue would be resolved. 

The refrigerator was another deal. We had been fussing with it for a week or more trying to find a bad connection. A call to the boatyard that installed it brought the suggestion of water in the coolant which would have to be drained and recharged. John just didn't think that was the problem. Last year after the freezer and frige were only 1 year old the controller went bad on the freezer and we had to have it replaced. John thought it was the same issue with the refrig but the tech at Frigoboat and the guy at the boatyard had different thoughts and not being confident we decided to get someone to look at it. For over a week it would go off for several hours and then start once again. In the off times we would take ice from the freezer and pack the refrig in order to keep 3 months of my VERY expensive medication at the proper temp. By Friday it had been off for 2 days and we were pretty sure it was not coming back on. We called around and found a refrig guy who was working on 2 other boats but said he would call on Sat. when he was finished with those jobs. By 4 on Sat. there had been no call (island time) so we were set to give up and just keep icing down the frig until we could get back to the states but lo and behold at 4:45 pm Sean called and said he was on his way and could we pick him up at the dinghy dock? (in the States one always has to take the boat into a marina as the contractors almost never come out to your anchorage). He came out with all his recharging equipment and after trying another controller he confirmed that the controller was indeed dead. So this was the second one to fail in a system less than 2 years old although we had been assured that it was very "rare " for any of the parts to fail on these units!!! 

Now we have our two major issues resolved. John did a temp fix on the third leak. We could now leave if it were not for another cold front moving through which brought high winds and t-storms. We are waiting out the weather and are hoping to move on to Treasure Cay or Great Guana by tomorrow or Wed. 

The good news is that we were able to get to shore today to fill our propane tank, grocery shop and pick up email (our booster antenna is still not working).

 Life is good and the Bahamas are beautiful. 

E and J