Yesterday morning, in a most leisurely fashion, FKG finally buttoned up their work on our rigging and sent us on our way. I had to gently crack the whip since they had sent their workers to other boats instead of working on ours. I was not too pleased but things finally got done and we motored over to Simpson Bay Marina.

Today, we had the engine tech come over to work on our starboard engine. After raising it and turning it sideways so he could get access to the seals that he needed to replace, he pulled the saildrive’s pinion shaft and discovered that it was scoured. This scouring was the chief reason the seal was leaking, even though the seal only had about 30 hours on it. He immediately recommended that he stop work and order a new pinion shaft before replacing its seal. This seemed most logical to me so I agreed. Thus, the engine work is on hold as we wait for the part to be ordered and sent to Sint Maarten. Sigh.

Tyrell, our local electrician also came today to rewire our various wires that run up the mast back to the leads that run throughout the boat. Since he is heavily impacted, he set up his helper to do this work but his help was a bit overwhelmed and did not finish the task. Thus, we are waiting for Tyrell to return to finish the work.

Meanwhile, we are putzing along, working on our respective little projects to get ourselves ready to sail over to the Azores in 10 days or so.