After a light breakfast and while we awaited the arrival of the medical team at around 0900, we enjoyed a nice long chat to Keenan, which continued after the medical team had left. It was lovely to just sit and talk to him, something we haven’t done in a very long time.
Today’s medical team was compromised of a different group of professionals, but they were just as efficient and proficient, with both tests completed within a matter of seconds.
Afterwards, a mid-morning coffee and a baked delight went down like a treat, following which we had to decide what to do for the rest of the day. By then, though, Roy had almost completed his one task for the day; replace the temperature sensor on the generator, another job that had to be postponed due to our hasty departure from Malaysia.
By 1100 Elaine still had no idea what she wanted to do for the day, especially since it was rather overcast and hazy, not to mention, a tad rolly in the anchorage, so she enjoyed a nap in the cockpit instead. When she surfaced it was lunchtime, the sun was shining, the temperatures had reached 35C, the water was calm and there wasn’t a breath of air. It was the perfect reason to have lunch and return to her spot in the cockpit to while away the afternoon too.
By this stage Roy had joined her, but around 1730 we happened to look out to the east and spotted a rather ominous looking squall approaching. A mad dash ensued to close up everywhere and stow the cockpit cushions just as the heavens opened. What we weren’t expecting was the 30 Kt winds and seconds later the anchor alarm signalling a warning, then alarming that we were dragging; only the second time ever on our ground tackle.
A mad dash to the helmstation to start the engines followed, so as to hold us off the fishing pods to our stern. Completely amazed that we’d actually dragged, along with at least one other yacht in the anchorage, we concluded that we must be anchored in a less than ideal bottom, so a whole lot more chain went out when we re-anchored. Having a live test of this Anchor Plus feature was excellent, though! We were both delighted at the results, albeit that it was associated with more than enough excitement for one day after a very lazy and relaxing afternoon, although a beautiful sunset put the world to rights again!
