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From: estelaz@aol.com
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:47:12
To: Blog2<estelaz1.faraway@blogger.com>
Subject: Phase 2 complete
This little boat that could, has made it to Turks and Caicos. Not without giving us a few more headaches. Juan says it has pushed him to the limit. (Hopefully his limits are elastic because we still have two more phases, both hard DR and PR)
The passage was perfect. Juan spent two hours fixing the bathroom faucet while we were doing 4 knots under sail, not too fast but thoroughly enjoyable. Later in the day the winds died down so we turned on the engine and motorsailed at 7.5k.
When the sun set Juan decided to check the engine compartment and found the cover of the transmission fluid had opened and it was spewing out the fluid. So we killed the engine and let it cool. The grooves seemed to have melted so the cover did not stay in place. But after some TLC and more transmission fluid we were back in business. The water was completely flat and we both got to sleep - sometimes at the same time - but there was nothing in sight for miles. Except whales. I saw one to our port in the afternoon and then they kept popping in the radar.
We are now anchored in Sapodilla bay, there is no wind and it is hot, hot, hot.
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