The Yanmar people asked us to move to a dock if possible. Last evening we came in to the marina office by dinghy and asked for a dock for today. They assigned us to dock A-12. While we were waiting for the catamaran that was there to leave (check-out is noon) we worked on the bilge pump. Miraculously, we found a bolt that would work, Bud was able to drill and tap a larger hole and we put it back together and tried it with a pan of water and it worked. It didn’t seem to leak, though it was hard to tell because water splashed as it exited the pump back into the pan. Anyway, we got it reinstalled. Bud turned it on so I could see if it would actually pump water from the bilge, but even the first couple of coughs had oil, so I had him stop. We’ll have to wait until after the oil and bilge are cleaned up to test it further.

That was all done by about 10:30 AM. Then we waited some more. At 1:30 the catamaran was still there so I called the marina office. The cat had paid until tomorrow morning, so he wasn’t leaving at all, and the guy in the office didn’t see that they had another slip open that could take us. He said to call back and talk to Anthony when he got back from lunch in about a half hour. Thinking we were not going to get a slip at all, we started the generator to charge the batteries. We’d used the inverter for drilling and vacuuming the fiberglass dust that was under where the bilge pump had been. Since we had the generator on we turned on the water heater and both took showers.

Then we took the dinghy back in to the marina office. We met Anthony on the dock and asked him about a slip. He had another for us so we dinghied back to the boat and hooked the dinghy up on the davits, bade adieux to our mooring mates and brought the boat over to our assigned slip. We’re right next to the very large motor yacht Intrepid, which takes up all of the T-end of the dock. Earendil looks pretty small next to Intrepid.

Tomorrow morning we’ll find out what happens next, and maybe get some idea of how long we’re going to be here, or somewhere near here, having the engine repaired.