A quiet day aboard, with an early start at La Sucrière to catch up on e-mails and from there back aboard to do the collected laundry and clean up all the small stuff that I’ve been postponing – my term for procrastinating. The navigation table in particular needs some work as I’ve been throwing everything into the big drawer while telling myself “I’ll sort that out later”.
As I was hanging up the second load of laundry I noticed that a 36 foot charter boat with two people aboard was having some sort of problem raising their anchor and was almost hitting the boats around them, so I hopped into the dinghy and went over to see if they could use some assistance – they could. Their anchor windlass wasn’t working and they didn’t know how to use the manual method (loosening the central nut with a winch handle then using an excenter notch to crank in chain over the gypsy) and I went aboard to help. With 3 people the job was easier and in short order the job was done and we had a short argument (which I lost) as I wanted to get aboard my dinghy without the 3 cans of Heineken that they were giving me for my help. Although I’m not a fan of Heineken I’ll have one or two of them at happy hour in their honour!
I took a quick trip across the lagoon but managed to visit Budget Marine without buying anything, doubtless a record for me, and returned to the French side with some groceries for the fridge and nothing for the boat.
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