We’re poking away at close up jobs through these days. This morning Christy will go to one of the laundromats we saw on our walk on Sunday while I walk up to what looks like a full-service plumbing shop at the top of the hill, maybe a 20 minute walk.
The laundromats turn out to be pretty functional and clean, not cheap though, it costs almost C$45 to clean and dry 2 full loads. I help Christy get started, buy myself a nice ham and cheese baguette (it seems like a nice patisserie but Christy declines food, and the coffee comes from a machine so we both decline that) and I head on up the hill to the plumbing supply store.
It is a very nice, commercial grade plumbing supply store and after I use Frenglish to explain to the guy behind the counter what I am looking for and discover that a backflow prevention valve is a clappet retenue in French, the lovely fellow goes and gets me two nice brass ones, the right size for the hose piece I show him. EUR$15 for the pair, not bad. Then he types something into his phone and shows it to me. It is a French-to-English translation of the words “We don’t have the fittings for them to fit your hose.” We both chuckle. He shows me where to get them but that is a taxi ride away. I debate what to do but realize we can do without both valves for the next 4 weeks. The freezer is already disconnected and we can just shut down the forward sink until we return in January. I return to meet Christy.
She is just putting the clothes in the dryer so I go back to the boat, will come back to get her in 45 minutes or so. I am the only one with the security app on my phone that gets us into the marina so we have go out and in together.
Back on Milu, I put the plumbing systems back together and reorganize the salon. Also here in the marina the wind is calm enough that I can use my mini butane torch to finish heat-sealing the connections I made on the deck for the anchor light. I heat-seal the connectors themselves, then manage to pull a tube around them, heat seal that, then wrap the whole thing in electrical tape. That should keep that dry.
Go pick up Christy and help return the laundry.
We work away at “haul out” jobs for the afternoon. I have a Zoom call with Fidelity, thankfully Zoom cuz the one domain I can’t reach over Free Mobile is Cloudli.com. Nothing works. This is pretty detrimental to our plans of just using it for our travels instead of Starlink, then Christy has the idea that I go back to using the Digicel SIM, she can use Free – that would work too. Not as cheap but I won’t bust over the 30 GB/month Digicel limit – she is going through 6GB+ per day. When we get back to Canada, I will try and Wireshark it – maybe it can be solved.
Later we go for dinner at the on-site pizzeria. Except we both have the burgers. They are slow coming but very good. Oughtta be, the meal costs us about C$90 without booze.