Baby steps?

Everyone we talked to said the same thing, “Herbie is the guy,” as he has apparently been “the guy” for more than 20 years before taking over the co-op power plant. Well… on Monday, one of the local tugs had a problem, hence Herbie got to us on Tuesday. He immediately determined one problem and quickly bypassed the “run solenoid.” Man, it’s fun to learn. We, along with Herbie’s brother Gregg, spent a couple of hours trying this and that, to no avail. Susie was in the pilothouse repeatedly trying the gen while the guys were in the engine room. Stumped, the boys went off to research and later advised we need “a run solenoid and injectors.” Great, we have a direction! And of course, have to do the whole “ship to the freight company in Ft Lauderdale, they’ll fly it over hopefully on Saturday” thing. Different island, different freight company.

In the meantime, both Herbie and Justin at On-Site said, “you might do oil changes because sometimes that works unexplained wonders!” Hey, we just got extra supplies, and Todd can do that!

There’s been a fair amount of rain and cloud cover, and this waterway is lined on one side with mangroves, so the sunsets have been a bit muted. Still pretty though.

So, the next day or so was spent online finding the needed parts, getting them overnighted to “Lauderdale,” and arranging with Sheldon (Twinex Freight forwarders), the Eleuthera rep. Nerve racking process.
Other than that? And thumb twiddling? Well, basic housekeeping (always, it’s a tiny house!), Susie whooped Todd in games, we read a couple of books, and we watched a lot of boats come and go. All day, all sizes. They come. And they go. We finally started taking pictures. Hey, is that the tug that bumped us off Monday’s schedule? Good to see it working!