We spent the last few days in Charlotte Amalie doing some of the initial prep for the upcoming boat storage and working on a few repairs. We've moved into the marina & the refrigeration company is coming today since our freezer defrosted itself while at St.James. Fortunately, we didn't have much inside other than waters, Gatorade, and some veggies that we keep in the non freezing portion of the box. Keith believes it's the thermostat based on the diagnostics.

Additionally, Keith's fix for the manifold water leak is working unfortunately that doesn't appear to be the only leak/ source of the 1/3 cup of water we get are getting in the bilge. Prior to leaving St.John, the bilge was dry and at St.James it had about 1/3 cup of salty water. We've pulled up every thing from the back of the boat forward in attempt to track the source. The weep holes at the engine thru Hole are wet but with all the others farther back dry. It's starting to look more like the engine intake thru- hull may be leaking again. This leak was from the yard not filling a screw hole from the old one that didn't match up to the new thru hull which led to four months of salt and fresh water ( back home in SF - salt water & Delta - fresh water) slowly leaking in until they filled the hole.

Our plan was to leave Thursday for Puerto Rico but tomorrow (Tuesday) looks like better weather- hopefully a nice sail.

Picture is of a Soldier Crab from our Brown Bay hike on St.John- very cool little creatures! (Better than a picture of our freezer or the bilge)