we got out of cane garden early and after a quick stop in soffers hole for groceries we pulled into the nany cay marina. one the way don and i got the new fenders inflated and set up and i got to practice backing into a nice easy slip. the only difficulty with nanny cay is for some reason the only have 20 feet fingers works fine if you are a cat in your own slip but as a monohull sharing one its a bit trickier.
after the docking don and i hiked around the bay to launch his dingy. 20 minutes i told aimee, if everything goes smootly, famous last words. we got the dingy launched and the engine installed but after 4 months it was not happy. eventually we rowed across to the fuel dock for new fuel. still no joy and i discovered one spark plug had no gap. we replaced this and got a bit of action out of the thing. enough to get us to palapa. so 6 hours later still with no dingy and having lost about 5 lbs sweating don declared “victory” and offered to take us to dinner at muligans.
alas they no longer have ribs every day during off season so we had to settle for a burger, the hardships we endure here in paradise are unending! tomorrow perhaps we will get the engine going but you can never tell.
cheers
roger
