Hot, sunny. Happy Birthday Earl. Miss you.

Nice anchorage last night, not too rough and a good breeze. Which is good cuz we have an ugly problem to work on today.

I call Gazimo early, he says meet me at the dinghy dock in 20 minutes. Wow, wasn’t expecting that.

Three sh*tty hours later we have cleaned 3 clogged sh*t lines and cleared the problem. Lots of defecation residue in the shower area which I can’t clear because of that pump problem I mentioned the other day. I know the freezer drain pump is exactly the same model and doesn’t work 100% but perhaps works enough to clear the shower. While Gaz works away at the main problem, I get on my belly to remove the freezer pump. After Gaz’s departure I install it but it is completely no good too. Christy tries to clean it manually but there is only so much she can do and there will be a smell coming from there for a while.

Gaz’s price? A jaw-dropping US$150 per hour. In hindsight I could have done what he did but would have been guessing at a lot. At least now I know how the plumbing in a yacht works. And it’s done.

We have a rum punch with Gaz on the back of the boat (C and me have virgins but he doesn’t know that) after the job is done. He worked for years in Toronto at Outer Harbour Marina which is a funny coincidence. He’s glad to be out of there too but for him it was mostly the cold. He has a bit of family still there.

I take him back to the dinghy dock then go to the bank to get him the EC$900 for the job (he lets us use the Canadian conversion rate instead of the US). Good day’s work for anybody, but for Canouan I think that would be a great day’s work in 3 hours.

We decide to check out Glossy Bay which is the other side of Canouan, outside of the fancy new marina. We motor around to that side and have the entire bay, the entire beach to ourselves. It’s a huge beautiful beach but a little exposed if the wind is coming from south of east.

I’d love to take some drone shots, they’d be great but the airport is maybe 500m away and the drone won’t be able to take off.

But we swim to shore (check out the anchor on the way) and walk end-to-end on the beach. At the opposite end of the beach from the pic above, there is a bar! Who knew? Scruffy’s is the name. Cool looking spot. Nobody there and I doubt anybody’s coming but there are three staff working and dying for attention I think. But we just have swim suits, no money.

We walk to the other end and look at the menu. Prices look OK actually until we realize they are in $US. Maybe not so OK. Almost triple what is normal but it keeps the Scruffys out. (Little joke there).

Swim back to the boat and chill a bit. We decide to stay the night instead of going back to Charlestown Bay. It’s a bit rough but not much worse than Admiralty Bay in Bequia on a windy night.

As we are sitting there after our swim, out comes a little runabout (a new one) with a native who obviously works for the marina. He says the manager sent him out there to tell us we can’t anchor in this bay. We tell him our charts, our books, all say we can anchor in the bay. He is very polite and makes it clear it is the manager who is telling him to do this, it is not him. “If your chart says so, then it must be OK” he says with a smile, since he knows full well we are allowed to park in the bay.

It turns out to be a VERY rocky night as the wind does veer to the south and blows right in the bay. Probably would be OK in the fall when the wind is more from the south or just to stop for lunch but we are glad to pull out in the morning.

With a working aft head.