The Leak is Fixed, But…

We dinghied ashore bright and early this morning in order to get to Eleuthera Island Farm when they opened at 9 am. We arrived right at 9 but waited 10 minutes for them to open. Island time, you know. We bought a few gorgeous heads of leaf lettuce, some arugula, and a few other fruits and vegetables—mindful that we had to carry our purchases in the backpack a mile back to the dinghy. George had hoped to buy some eggs there but they didn’t have any. Just before we arrived at the beach where our dinghy was anchored, we saw a small convenience store we hadn’t noticed before. We walked in and bought a dozen eggs for $7.00. Never mind the price, we were just happy to get them. 

After returning to Breeze On, George got right to work fixing the leak in the watermaker. George had asked for clarification from the Rainman tech support person in Australia who had responded to his email last night but never heard back so he was on his own. His biggest fear was that in attempting to fix the leak he might make it worse. He worked on it quite a while and tightened everything up as best he could. When he started it up there was no leak! Yay! However, the other problem—-too much air in the prefilter—returned. He decided to go ahead, fill the water tank, and try to sort out that problem later. He said if he has to choose one problem over the other he would much prefer air in the prefilter. 

When the tank was filled we raised the anchor and motored back to Rock Sound. We plan to spend just one more night here then head to either Cat Island or back to Exuma, depending on the wind direction. 

The beautiful lettuce we bought at Eleuthera Island Farm. 

Seaside Convenient Store, where we bought eggs. 



Breeze On in her anchorage. If there was much wind we wouldn’t want to have the land behind us—sailors refer to that as being on a lee shore. There is very little wind so we aren’t worried about it. 

On our way back we checked on the anchor. It is nicely buried in the sand.