It's now Monday afternoon and it's been another busy day and not just on our boat.
I was off for my visit to the chiropractor on the 1130 bus. Having an appointment and now being sure about the timeliness of the bus system, I caught an early bus so I wouldn't be late. My appointment was for 1300. I grabbed a quick lunch at the grocery store as they have a cafeteria there. Chopped up chicken with fajita seasoning on rice. Couldn't eat it all and brought the rest back to add to my soup dinner. Once my visit was over and I was messaged, snap, crackled and popped, I headed for the return bus getting back about 1530. On the way back to Zephyr, there looked to be a mad house happening out on the water and all around the boat that's directly behind us. A large(about 52 foot)ketch was dragging it's anchor and the owners were not on board! I unloaded what I'd brought back and headed over to see what I could do to help. There were about 6 dinghies circling the boat with several people already on board but I think the doors were locked and no one could get to the switch to turn on the engine and it was quickly dragging down on the boat to it's stern. Winds were in the mid teens but not huge and I just found out that when the snubber he uses to keep the pressure off his chain broke, the chain in his anchor locker just started flowing out the bow of the boat!! As he came closer and closer to the boat behind him, that boat was blown right across the stern section of the run away boat. I slammed Puffs bow into the down wind boat trying to get him back to the port side of the dragging boat with a bit of success till the owner told me to back off. I circled around and the boat that had been down wind had started his engine and was trying to get around the port side of the sliding boat. As he was just about to clear the bow of the sliding boat, the winds hit him and slowly pushed his stern right onto the bow of the sliding boat and his chain. Again, I slammed Puff into the side of his boat and got him away and then the anchor chain on the sliding boat grabbed one of the side cleats on Puff and didn't want to let go. Once I saw what had happened, I maneuvered Puff till the chain finally fell free and I could get away from it. Another dinghy showed up with another anchor and they tied it to the bow and then took it far off the bow and dropped it into the water and it set and helped keep the boat in one place. About this time, one of the owners of the boat(wife) showed up and get the engine started and everything got sorted out. Here's the really bad thing is that the husband likes to scuba dive and goes out regularly about 1700 by himself and goes diving. Story has it that he had an accident and came up to fast and is in the hospital with the "bends" and may end up paralyzed but we don't know all the details but he is in the hospital. At least his boat is safe now. UPDATE Wednesday morning: We just found out he will not be paralyzed but has a lot of problems he's going to have to overcome.

Yesterday, Tuesday, we finally finished the installation of our infamous black water tank. Two electrical connections and then the fitting of new hoses. The old ones needed replacing as they "wear out"(get stinky after a while). The first one we cut ended up too short but luckily we had more and could get the right size on the second try. The hose that goes from the macerator to the thru hull also needed proper fitting. We soaked the hose ends in hot water so there would be more give to slide over the ends. Hose clamps galore and we were done. Tracy pushed the "on" button and we heard the familiar sound of the macerator spinning. After about 6 weeks, the job was finally done.

I had to change out the filter in our water line as the last time we got water from the "Water Boat", it had sat in their tanks over night and had a distinctive "tank" taste. I took out the old paper filter and put in a charcoal filter to get rid of the taste and now it's fine. We're set to take on more water today as we hope to be out of here by early next week on out way to Panama. Winds are hitting in the high teens to mid 20s so we're waiting for them to settle down a bit plus we want smaller waves as they are at 9 feet at 6 seconds and that's not a fun trip.

Yesterday afternoon, we hosted another game of Mexican Train. Try as I could, I just couldn't beat Johanna off Iiris. She knows her Mexican Train and is a great player.

I just came in from taking the head off the DuoGen to make sure all the gears and screws are good. Winds over the next three days are forecast to be in the 25 knot range and we want to make sure she stays nice and happy on the stern. Once I got that done, we started up the generator again(every day event)to get the batteries back up where they are supposed to be.

I've attached a picture of our tank, now stuck in the wall. You can see the big plate that was welded to the front. The other dots on it are spots we used JB Weld on. Seems to be taking care of the leakage.