It's time for more odd jobs, at least yesterday was. We both got up early while the bay around us was calm and started in. We fired up the generator and made water as well as amps for our batteries. It was time to refill our diesel tanks so I grabbed our four cans(plus two loaned to us by Night Fly) so I could ferry about 35 gallons on each trip. We'd already emptied our back up cans(total of 10 gallons)into our tanks. While I was gone, Tracy set about doing more laundry as the rides back and forth from shore to Zephyr gets us damp(or down right drenched)each time we make the trip. Some times it's salty and sometimes it just rain but the clothes still need washing.

I pulled into the fuel docks(no cleats to tie up to but some well hidden rings on the floats under the docks)and took our cans up for filling. In total, 6 cans so it wasn't going to be cheap. Diesel runs about $5.15 per gallon and gasoline is about the same. It's not cheap out here as fuel in the Maldives was about 40% less! I ferried the cans back to find Jamie from Totem on board working on our sewing machine. It's always been a problem, working sometimes but most times not. Jamie was going to use it to fix the sails and dodgers on several boats here in the anchorage. The crossing this year has been hard on many of the boats with torn out sails, both main as well as Genoas. We got off lucky and will only need to sew on some patches along the front edge of our mainsail. Several of the boats will have to replace their sails. We helped load it into Jamies dinghy and he was off to fix sails.

In the end, I made two trips back and forth though I'd originally thought it was going to take three but luckily, our fuel conservation of sailing when ever possible and doing close to no motoring after we got the Chagos saved us a bunch. In the end, we only used about 80 gallons so that was a nice surprise. We moved the fuel from the jerry cans to the Baja Filter(keeps water and particles that are in the fuel from going into the tanks) using our Super Syphon. Works great and no mess on deck from spilled fuel. So as of now, our tanks are just about full but I'm sure we will be bringing more out as we take trips back and forth to the islands. We were done by 1330 and settled in for a nice lunch of Bruchetta. We hung more clean clothes from the lines to dry as we continued on with jobs, always looking at the sky to see how soon the next rain was coming. We got lucky and none showed up till late in the day and it was just the odd sprinkle. I changed out the filter on our Spectra Water Maker and took apart the strainer down near the through hull that all the water that comes into the boat for the water maker has to go through. It's a very fine wire mesh inside to keep all but the smallest particles out and they then get stopped by the secondary filter. It had been a while since I did the change out so now that job is off the list.

I pulled up the DHL website to check on a parts package that was coming to us from Great Britain. These are the parts we need to fix our DuoGen wind generator. They'd left England on Wednesday with an expected delivery date of next Tuesday. We were surprised to see that it had been delivered to the Yacht Club just after 1500!!! We jumped in Puff and headed in, not about to miss picking the package up. Elenore(in the office) had the package all ready for us. We stayed around and had a nice drink before heading back to Zephyr. As it usually happens, while we did get the parts(and for that I glad) the Seychelles is having another celebration over the weekend with "Independence Day" on Monday so everyone will be closed for the next three days. We can't take the DuoGen in for repairs till Tuesday!!! It's not like we are leaving for a while though we do want to get back to the islands and away from Port Victoria. There is a "small craft advisory" out for the west side of the island so it will be a few days before we get out of here. At least we will be around here for a while after we get the DuoGen fixed to make sure it's working right before we head off for Madagascar. In the past, just about as soon as we got it fixed, we would take off and then it would fail and we couldn't take it back in to have it redone. Now at least we will have a good three weeks of use before we are out of here.

There is a "boat show" down at the Eden Island Marina for the next three days so we will be heading down to take a look this morning. I can't imagine what the heck it's going to be as there are no "new" boat dealers in the island. I'll let you know what it's like. We have heard over the radio that some of the local restaurants will be having booths set up so we can try their food. Sure hope they have some curry dishes. It's been raining on and off(not in the forecast) since Sun up so we will have to plan our trip there accordingly. For some reason, Eden Island seems to be a magnet for rain. It always hits there first before moving across town and out to the anchorage.