April 17th Lynyard Cay, Abacos

We didn't do much of anything in the morning. I worked on updating our Blog and then on attempting to get online. Kathy was able to make a connection with her Mac in the cockpit with the internal antenna but the external antenna for my computer was having trouble.

After reloading the software and altering the com port to the only usable usb on this machine there was still nothing.

There is a splice in our antenna so I took off the tape and checked it out. What I found was that the shielding on the antenna side of the splice was powder. It was completely oxidized for about 3 inches. Cut out a section of both ends and made a new connection. For a while at least I had a great connection.

We went ashore with Kim and Steve in the afternoon to check out another couple of beaches. I picked up sea glass and Kathy found a heart bean so it wasn't a total waste of time.

With a dinner invitation from Steve for 5:30, we returned to the boat and put together an anti-pasta plate. I turned on the computer and couldn't make any type of connection.

Anyway we had are great dinner and lots of fun with Steve and Kim and returned in the wind and waves in time to watch a little video before bed.

We decided to leave for Marsh Harbor tomorrow morning which is Saturday. We need some supplies that we wouldn't be able to get on Sunday and Steve needs to have some refrigeration work done.