Sunday morning Eric was filling a few scuba tanks and making water when he commented on an electrical smell coming from my sewing machine. I said the old one made that smell but not the new one. A few minutes later the generator shut down. After scrounging around he found that the rotor melted down. We did this all last winter but I think that this year the hot water heaters he fixed over the summer were on as well. Whoa, bummer. We need the generator to make water. So, Monday morning we made the half day trip up to Nassau and pulled up to a dock by 2pm with plenty of time to get chores done.

The north side of the harbor is Paradise Island full of gated communities, resorts and the famous Atlantis resort.  A house with a dock is taken to a whole new level when you see these places.

In 24 hours Eric learned it would take at least a month to get the extremely expensive part. So, with it on order he bought a gasoline generator that we can get by with until then. This generator doesn’t have nearly the power of our other one, our water making output has dropped from 50 gal/hr to 10 gal/hr. It’s loud, requires gasoline instead of the diesel in our tanks, the size of a big ottoman and in the middle of the cockpit.

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But we’ll have water which either isn’t available or costs 30-50 cents a gallon. Poor Eric was over the top stressed.

The kids and I manage to get rid of 3 weeks of trash, 5 loads of laundry including clean sheets and towels, and buy a Hawiian Sling for lobster hunting. We stocked up on triple the price groceries after hiking to the market through treacherous traffic, solicitors and creole cussers on the street corners. We got bag apples for $8, single apples were $1.50 a piece. Cheap white bread is $4/loaf and milk $8/gallon. We concentrated on produce, splurging on strawberries and watermelon. We filled everything we have that holds water and came up with a water conservation plan.  Solar showers use far less water than the the pressure pump squirting it out of our tanks.  So, I have a solar shower bag on the kitchen counter for dish and hand washing and we have a salt water sprayer for prewashing dishes.  The other shower will go in the back for our evening showers.  If we all stand in a bucket when we shower we can use the grey water to rinse the cockpit or maybe rinse Topaz with.

All in all, things are much less stressed at the anchorage where we’re not hemorrhaging money, we’re back at rose island anchorage for the night, we’ll head back down to the Cays at first light.

When I dropped the anchor Tuesday evening it still had sand on it from Shroud Cay from Monday morning. It was hard to believe we were only in Nassau one day. Sent from my iPhone