THREE IN A ROW

Pinoy Boat Service
Port Carmen, Cebu
Philippines

It's 1830 or 6:30 PM here in the Philippines and I am managing to keep with my plan to post every Sunday.

On Monday typhoon "Luis" moved over Luzon and off across the south China sea. As the new week started I went to order bottled water from the little store here in the Republic Dry Dock where Pinoy Boat services is located, this is a weekly thing. The city water is not potable so we fill our tank from 20 liter bottles. We use this for both drinking and bathing as it is just easier. Kathy does use the city water for clothes washing and boat washing. A 20 liter bottle or 5 gallons is 30 FP or $.75 US., Our normal usage is 200 liters a week.

The next several days were spent working to get the AIS talking to either of our computer navigation programs. In the end I can get it to work on one of the programs on what would be our primary navigation computer but not the other on that same one and not on the small computer which I am now writing on. It all has to do with the "ports" that are used. I'll hopefully get some help from another cruiser here who is more literate than my about seven year old status.

Wednesday the yard foreman Edsel arrived to paint the name back on "PO" we removed the name more than two years ago in Langkawi when we were hauled out there. Before the name was in vinyl letters and after having the topsides done we wanted the name painted too. A graphics shop made up the stencils, Edsel applied them and sprayed the paint. there was a rain delay as Wednesday afternoon the rain came from tropical storm Fung-Wong to our north and continued till early Friday morning when he completed the job. On Wednesday I also discovered that the 12 volt system in the freezer box was not working correctly, from the tests I've done we may need a new compressor. More on that in the weeks to come as we can do without a freezer at this time. We had continual rain from Wednesday afternoon through most of Thursday. Hyde Sails did arrive Thursday morning to continue the fitting of the cockpit enclosure, conducted in the rain but hey nobody actually melts in the rain but "Frosty the Snowman".

Friday I was off to Cebu to take winch drums in to be re-chromed. It was planned to have the brother and sister team in to clean that day but due to a death in their family only Lloyd came. The death was to a cousin only 32 years of age and from RABIES. He had been bitten by a rat but could not afford to go to the doctor or hospital for a vaccine so took the chance that the rat was not rabid. That would be unheard of in most places in the world but not here.

I made my way to Cebu, located the plating shop and dropped off two of the five winches that need re-doing. Next week I'll pick those up and drop the other three off. The price 400 FP each or less than $10.00 US.

Saturday is yachtie BBQ at the bar her at Pinoy Boat Services. During the week Kathy keep busy with her laundry and supervision of workers.

Today a normal rest day we did a big clean out of the freezer box as it will not be in use till I figure out the compressor problem. then it was off to Danao for FIESTA. With luck I will be able to upload photos from our afternoon watching the parade and all the festivities. The best may be the video of our tryke ride back home.

That's it for another week, hopefully more next Sunday

----------
radio email processed by SailMail
for information see: http://www.sailmail.com