Windless morning
It is only 09:00 in the morning and already it is promising to be a scorcher. The skies are cloudless so my solar panels will be doing a good job of producing power, but with no trade winds cooling the boat down it is hot.
The night was a bit uncomfortable as the swell hit Zanshin broadside on and caused a bit of rolling, enough to keep me awake for a significant portion of the dark hours.
Noon
I was about to depart the boat when I felt an odd movement on the boat, and I went forward to check on the anchor. This was fortunate, as the snubber line had chafed through and was held on by a single strand of line. Had I waited any longer it would have snapped, and my anchor snubber hook would have disappeared into the waters of Simpson Bay.
I got out my splicing kit and proceed to cut the broken ends of the line off, tape them so they wouldn’t come apart during splicing and then did a quick short splice that should hold until I can get a new line made up. I didn’t bother to clean up the ends, since the line is going to get thrown away in a day or two.
After finishing the splicing job, I dinghied ashore after lunch and found a rental car for and acceptable daily rate at Paradise Car Rental along the Airport Road strip. Once I had the rental car going (with the air conditioning blasting, of course), I drove to the airport hangar housing the cargo services and picked up the 2 packages that had been sent via air freight. They’d arrived just in time for Easter shutdown, so I couldn’t pick them up any earlier.
Then I took the drive into Philipsburg and the marine cargo shipping warehouse for the 2 solar panels. As always, traffic was terrible, and the relatively short drive took almost an hour.
I got the paperwork sorted out and waited a long time to get the 2 panels, then had a bit of fun trying to figure out how to get the panels into the car for transport back to Zanshin.
Happy Hour
I unloaded all my acquisitions and then went ashore to the Soggy Dollar. By the time I arrived the dinghy dock was crowded, and I only found a spot in the 2nd row back, the dinghy equivalent of “double parking”.