Swedes and Flooded Bilge
07 February 2017 | Union Island - The Grenadines
Frank
It's 02.30 and still blowing Force 5 so I'm up checking the anchor and having a cup of tea.
The new wind generator is very happy! We sailed round to Clifton on Union Island yesterday.
It's a very pretty place and the costs for eating out are very much lower than Tobago Cays.
The automatic bilge pump has been kicking in fairly regularly over the past week and I have now found the cause. The jubilee clamp on cooling hose on the genset was broken and sea water was leaking out every time we ran it. I have fixed it and checked and cleaned the bilge pumps.
Today's task is to put the engine room back together again.
We are anchored with a group of Swedish boats so we are flying our Swedish Ensign on our Swedish boat too which pleases the Swedes.