Our New Dinghy Motor Has Arrived

This was a long wait, we order it in George Town in the middle of January. The mail boat finally arrived yesterday afternoon in Clarence Town and the dock was busy.

Mail boat.

When the mail boat comes in there's a lot of people on the docks waiting for there stuff. They unload the containers off the boat and unpack them one at a time by four or five people. People are standing and watching for they stuff to be unpack. I was so lucky my engine was on the first container to be opened and it was right there when they opened the door. It was unloaded and I opened the box and installed the engine on the dinghy right on the beach. Easy as that! WRONG! The engine would not fit on the back of the dinghy. So I had to put back the old engine and go back to the boat for a little persuading. I had to cut off a little bit of plastic and then it was time for a test drive. I cant go to fast because of the breaking in period of the new engine.

She's a beauty!

So now I had to do a little adjusting on the engine rail mount I made at Conception Island

 

I drew a face on the rail mount. It's like it should have a name but I can't think of one right now.

 

While we were waiting for the motor to come another couple asked us if we were heading south. SO now we have a new buddy boat to go to the Turks and Caicos. There will be another front coming in on Monday so it's go now or wait another week. The plan is to leave Saturday noon and sail 200 miles straight through and arrive Monday morning in the day light. Hopefully the next blog will be from the Turks and Caicos. This will be our first overnight passage. Laurie's hoping not to get sea sick and I hope she doesn't either. We will have a full moon so that will help during the night.

 

 See you in the Turks and Caicos!