After more than six weeks away, we limped back to the boat on Wednesday the 13th. I brought a HORRIBLE flu back from DC and promptly gave it to both my sister (who had the good sense to go to the doctor for Tamiflu and cough syrup) and to JP - he and I just collapsed in a heap for a week. This year: FLU SHOTS ALL AROUND.
Raconteur is in beautiful shape, although the zincs had in fact totally died, as we feared they might. Susan replaced two of the three yesterday (see photo - lovely job; these are on the under the boat, on the propeller shaft, just forward of the prop) but the third was missing its screws and we could not find any metric screws today to replace them...so, that job remains for another day.
Provisioning here is very good; we have used both the Emerald Isle market (the marina shuttles guests in a golf cart) and Exuma Markets (by taxi today; thank you, Bernse!) and now we are stuffed to the gills. I am working up my courage to tackle the pressure cooker for dinner (pork chops) and for some pre-trip cooking (Chili and Ham and Split Pea soup) - I am not afraid of it exploding or anything, but I fear my ability to make anything taste good. I will report back in a future blog post.
We will head to Conception Island tomorrow or Sunday, after topping off the diesel and the water, then south to Rum Cay and down the rest of the Bahamas chain to Mayaguana. To the Turks and Caicos from there, and then a short (90 mile) passage to the Dominican Republic - about two weeks or so from now, conditions (weather and crew) permitting.
It is NICE to be back.
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