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Melissa & Dave - Adventures at Sea

Wanuskewin’s turn to start leaking

This morning Dave attempted to patch the leak in the exhaust hose using his idea to wrap one of the old dingy inner tubes around it and hose clamp it down.  But that didn’t work.  Fortunately he realized he could just cut off the 6 inches at the very end and reattach the hose because there was enough slack to do so.  It was a bitch of a job though – he emerged from the back trunk covered in sweat and having been bit by a nasty spider.

We got underway to Dominicalito.  It was a quiet afternoon with not much wind.  Wanuskewin discovered that they are leaking.  We joked about Wanuskewin and Apsaras spending too much time together because apparently Apsaras gave Wanuskewin the idea to try and sink herself (Apsaras having tried twice in the past two weeks).  Wanuskewin closed all their thru hulls (except the engine) to see if that would stop the leak.  Since it’s a slow leak it’s going to be hard to find!

When we anchored, the anchor didn’t set the first time and we had to raise and set it again.  Very unusual as we’ve done almost 200 anchoring’s on Apsaras now and we’ve not set the first time maybe two or three times previously.  This was actually good experience for Melissa (who always sets the anchor) because Dave asks her as he is backing down if she feels any skipping.  She usually shrugs “I don’t know” since she’s never had experience with an anchor that didn’t set properly.  It was blazingly obvious that the anchor was skipping because the chain was going “twang, twang, twang”.

We arrived at Dominicalito to find there isn’t much here on the beach.  So we didn’t even put the dinghy’s down and agreed we would depart in the morning.  There is a reef that protects the bay somewhat from the swell, so it wasn’t the worst anchorage ever, but it wasn’t the best either.  Bottom line is that it’s a good stop between here and the next bay that lets you avoid having to do an overnight voyage.

 

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