Saturday,
January 19 – Sunday, January 20
After
talking to some other cruisers and some of the guys in Budget Marine,
we had a pretty good idea of what was wrong with the windlass. We
decided to solicit the help of one of the onboard technicians from
English harbor to help us take apart and fix the windlass. It turns
out that there was some water that had leaked inside the motor
enclosure of the windlass which had caused the brushes to corrode.
We removed the motor, and had Oscar, our technician, take it back to
his shop to work on it while we were anchored in Freeman's Bay. We
spent Saturday and Sunday hanging out on Galleon Beach and exploring
more of English and Falmouth Harbors while our windlass was being
repaired.
We
got our windlass back, installed, and tested Sunday afternoon.
Everything seemed to be working much better, so we were hopeful that
we'd be able to take off the next day to sail to Barbuda. Later in
the afternoon on Sunday, we found a bar that was broadcasting the
Falcon's playoff game against SF. The bar had a whole room set up
with rows of chairs for their patrons to watch the game. Gene and I
were the only Falcon's fans amongst a room full of die hard SF fans,
so this made for a fun competitive atmosphere (particularly in the
first half while Atlanta was ahead). Unfortunately the Falcons ended
up losing, but our SF friends were really good sports and a lot of
fun. We enjoyed watching the game with them nonetheless.
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