Ok - I finally have a story to tell! We spent the last week at beautiful Emerald Bay - hot showers, free laundry, parties with new dock friends, days by the gorgeous infinity pool and great restaurant - all for a price, of course.
It wasn't all fun and games, though - especially for Jeff. He tried to replace the zinc, and kept losing parts of the old disintegrating zinc in the engine. Then he removed the heat exchanger and couldn't put it back together. After 3 hard, hot days, he gave up and called a mechanic, who, 4.5 hours and $450.00 US later, fixed the problem.
At least, that one. The dying batteries showed no sign of revival, even after a week of charging, so we bit the bullet and rented a car, drove on the left to George Town (25 minutes each way), only to find that the set of batteries Jeff had reserved were no good. At least we were able to stock up on groceries and booze (badly needed at this point!).
So today we finally left to return to George Town - a beautiful, blue-sky motor, as the wind was on our nose, so no sailing. All was calm, until we entered Red Shanks Harbour in what looked like 9 feet of water at high tide. Should have been fine, right? Wrong. Before we knew it, we were aground - deeply embedded in the sand and not moving. Low tide would be a disaster, if we couldn't move soon.
In moments, 3 dinghies from neighboring boats were busy pushing, pulling, and eventually releasing us from our watery prison! As we motored to deeper water for the night we started to taste the Bahama Mamas awaiting us in the fridge. Another exciting day in Paradise!
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