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July 2, 2001 -- Focus on the Boat We were expecting Enza Marine to come out to the boat this morning at 8:00 AM AST. However, in standard island time, they arrived around 9:15! We finished with them around 10:00 AM, then we headed into town. We were expecting a shipment in at Island Water World. Unfortunately, the stuff had not even been shipped out of St. Martin yet! So, we rode the bus up to the Spice Island Mall. We had lunch at "D" Roti Place, then headed to the mall to do some grocery shopping. We returned to the boat and put away our groceries. Then, while Mike worked on the plenum box for our engine room blower, I checked the capacitors for Ling Ling. We had 4 capacitors that were either dead or weak! I spent the next two hours swapping out capacitors! Mike finished the first layer of build up on the plenem box. We were both exhausted and overheated from working with no air moving where we were working. We test fired the generator and found that we had the best voltage we have had in a long time with a high load! Sue and Leon stopped by to see if we wanted to do Thai Prawns tonight. We suggested tomorrow night since we were exhausted. We did suggest meeting for the opening of the bar for cocktails tonight though. We headed in around 5:00 PM AST for happy hour. Beaujolis arrived in the anchorage this morning and went to the happy hour as well. We caught up on how each of our trips were, where we went, and all of that. It was a fun evening, but we were both tired so we headed back to the boat early