Oil change!!

OK, not exactly, but the galley is the staging ground for the process. Change oil, new oil filter, new primary diesel filter and drain Racor filter and new secondary fuel filter. We didn’t need it just based on hours, but we’ll likely do a 24 to 48 hour straight run without stopping to get through the equatorial convergence zone (lightning and other bad stuff with little wind and/or squalls). Not fun and clean, new oil and filters is one less thing to worry about.

Good thing Ann wasn't here to see this.

We’re about done with our boat projects list. Ann walked to the store on a provisioning run – every day she makes the twenty minute walk down and back (in this crazy heat) and shlepps back a backpack load of stuff for the trip. On Wednesday or Thursday we’ll do some pre-cooking and vacuum bagging – several meals worth of pasta sauce and half a dozen curry in coconut milk that we add to rice for a one pot meal underway. Oh, and beer.

Oh, and did I mention that Ann first made a batch of cookie dough and then oiled the teak in the cockpit in this heat prior to going to the grocery store. All part of getting it done!

Plan to leave Saturday the 27th. Once again, three weeks and some change enroute.