Hanse 400e

Hanse 400e

Friday, October 6, 2017

Maintenance Day at Southport

Friday 6th October 2017

Today is a bit overcast with rain and storms forecast later in the day. For us it is a maintenance day.

After breakfast, I got to work removing the faulty battery charger and installing the replacement, whilst Carole headed off to the laundry.  The morning went pretty quickly, and at around 11am, we had a visit from Pip and Marg from Moonshadow, who are anchored in Bum’s Bay.

They had taken their dinghy ashore with their pushbikes, and had ridden them around to the marina  on their way to Australia Fair and elsewhere. We had morning tea on Mica and discussed plans to go to Iluka overnight on Sunday. So far the weather forecast looks OK.

I have to mail the old charger and circuit breaker back to the supplier, and by now it is lunch time, so we headed off to the nearest post office, which is at Marina Mirage. Once the charger was dispatched, we had a look around the shopping centre before going to Fishermans Tavern for lunch, where they serve the largest salads I have seen anywhere.

Back on Mica with full stomachs, I head off to the fuel wharf with my jerry cans, whilst Carole started to wash down the boat. By mid afternoon our chores were done and it was time to relax.

The stormy weather mostly avoided us, but hit hard a little further North. We had some rain but not enough to saturate everything.


Prawns for dinner on board tonight.

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