April 26-30, 2001 -- The Waiting Game

This morning, we headed into town to look for a few things at the marine store and hardware store. Amazingly enough, we found most of what we were looking for! On our way back to the boat I stopped to call the guy who sold us the Pactor modem. He explained that he had encountered some difficulties and would be shipping the modem out today. We headed back to the boat and were basically lazy. Several hours later, we decided to take the dinghy for a spin. The extra oil that is supposed to be put in the gas for the first 20 hours of running the dinghy engine was starting to foul the plugs because were running at idle so much. On our way back from exercising the engine, we stopped by Letitia and met Carl and Darren. They had Grande Presidentes on board and offered us one. We couldn't refuse. We sat around with them for a while, then headed into the marina for drinks with them, Orca and Bahati. It was a fun evening. On April 27, we hung out most of the day at the marina waiting for packages. The Pactor II showed up around 2:30 PM AST. However, the inverter didn't show up. I called Xantrex about 3:30 PM AST and asked them what was going on. A bean counter had goofed and put a hold on our inverter shipment until they received the old one back! They promised the new inverter would be shipped today overnight which would mean that we would get it Monday. We arrived back at the boat and opened the box with the Pactor II in it only to discover that we had no power cord! We sent an e-mail to John about this. For dinner, we headed into the marina for the Barbecue they have every Friday night. It was a lot of fun. On April 28, we received an e-mail from John explaining that the power was supplied through the SSB radio. So, we hooked it up and we now have e-mail via SSB! The guy from Tradewinds rigging and canvas came by with the bearings for our staysail. Unfortunately, he discovered he had the wrong set. He said he would order us the correct ones. After he left, we headed into the marina to rent a car for the weekend. Unfortunately, they did not have any, so we made a reservation for Sunday. On April 29, a diver came out and cleaned the bottom of our hull. After he finished, we headed into town to do some more shopping at the marine and hardware store. We arrived back at the Marina to wait for the car rental place to pick us up. They were supposed to pick us up at 1:00 PM. They finally showed after 2:30! After picking up the car, we went in search of a new VCR since ours has died. We were successful! We went back to the boat and watched a movie! On April 30, we headed out to K-Mart to look for a few last minute things. Then we came back and waited for UPS. Finally around 3:30 PM we got the tracking number from Xantrex. As it turned out, the inverter was shipped second day and won't be here until tomorrow! We headed out to the grocery store to get a final few things there.