It has been raining on and off for two days now so we haven’t managed to make much progress with anything. We bought two more 85 watt solar panels that will now give us a total of 500 watts. Hopefully these bring and end to our power problems, once we manage to install them. In order to make space for the two new panels we had to move the old ones around and ended up drilling sixteen new holes into our coach roof, thereby in effect transforming our coach roof into a sieve. Fortunately we plugged the holes with some epoxy and sponge before it started raining. When the rain eventually decides to stop we will again drill the same sixteen holes into the epoxy/sponge mixture before we can fit the panels.
Yesterday we went on a day sail with Kevin and Donna on Maxscene. They have a friend with a fancy new “parasail” and wanted to test the sail. It is a beautiful sail that billows out in front of the boat with its own “wing” flying out in front of it. The sail is a downwind sail intended for use in light winds, similar to a spinnaker. These types of sails look absolutely stunning, but for me, are a bit too much like hard work. Besides the work, it also costs a small fortune, so we will just have to live without it.
Oh, and yesterday, for no particular reason at all, the skin started pealing off the bottom of my feet. At first I thought I had stood in something and it had stuck to my feet. But then after some closer investigation, discovered it was my own skin. Now I don’t know why this is happening. Could it be scabies or some other dreaded boat related disease? I just don’t know. Hopefully it is the beginning of my feet turning into webbed feet like a duck or seal or some other sea type creature.
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