February 07-08, 2001 -- Governor's Harbour, Oh What a Sight!

February 7-8, 2001 -- Governor's Harbour, Oh What a Sight! After we were conscious enough to review the weather faxes we received last night, we discovered that the High that was reported to be dissipating and moving extremely fast wasn't. It looks like we will be winded in until after the weekend. We dropped the little dinghy over the side of the boat, and prepared to head into town for fresh pastries for breakfast. On the way, we stopped by Gold Run to find out how their trip was. As it turns out, the lift pump on their engine had gone bad. They finally arrived around 2300 EST. We motored on into town, and had breakfast. Then we stopped by the grocery store and toured a couple of the small shops. We returned to the boat. After stowing our purchases, we set a second anchor to help reduce the amount of yawing we did and to help hold us better for the coming winds. We spent the rest of the day relaxing and reading books. On February 8, the wind had, indeed, kicked up. We experienced winds between 15 and 20 knots with higher gusts. We all opted to stay aboard the boat. After breakfast, Mike and I set out the list of items we wanted to complete. I would work on installing the two new salt pumps for the Lectra-Sans, while Mike worked on installing our new AC monitors. The new monitors are combined Volts, Amps and Hertz monitors. To make a long story short, I wound up helping Mike instead of installing the salt pumps. We worked for the majority of the day wiring in the monitoring shunts, and then installing the two new panels. But, it was worth it. The new panels not only look good, they provide us with better monitoring tools for our generators! After we completed that, Mike cleaned up the pilot house while I installed the salt pump in the aft stateroom. Since we found fresh tomatoes at the grocery store yesterday, we had Bruschetta and Spaghetti for dinner. Both were excellent. We spent the rest of the evening lounging, reading and writing logs.