Before Roy got started on hauling out the starboard hotwater tank for the umpteenth time, though, he walked back to the shop where we’d purchased the new propane bottle to purchase the new regulator we now needed.
Fortunately the hotwater tank had not sprung a new leak; the issue was that our previous repairs didn’t actually work properly. With that, Roy set about a more robust method to plug the hole, which hopefully will do the trick. It will, however, require a few steps, the first of which requires a day to set.
After our coffee break at Sailor’s Bay café, Elaine set about her more aggressive advertising campaign to sell Paw Paw, expanding the target audience to include Europe, Australia and New Zealand in order to get maximum exposure.
Dinner was a barbecue just for a change, given that we had slightly cooler weather. As our day drew to a close, though, we had a lovely surprise phone call from Brooke and Keenan, allowing us to catch up on all the news relating to the grandchildren and to start making plans for a Holiday Season visit.
With rain and wind overnight, we woke to a rather gloomy day today. It was a day marked in our calendars, though, for Elaine to apply for her US pension, but what a fiasco that turned into, when the online system didn’t function as intended and eventually locked her out, leaving her with very few choices other than to visit a Social Security office in person. This was somewhat expected anyway, because it happened to Roy as well a few years ago. Of course, it happens at the most inconvenient time, but will just have to wait now until we get back to the US.
Afterwards Roy finished his efforts on the second step to plug the hole in the hotwater tank, which also required time to set, then walked to the Yanmar supplier to purchase more engine oil. Before changing the oil on both engines and the saildrives, however, we enjoyed another coffee break at Sailor’s Bay café. His last task of the day, was to connect the new propane regulator and bottle to ensure it was all working as expected.
Elaine spent her day completing our video of our time on Symi Island, then started work on the next one for Tilos and Astipalaia Islands, bringing back fond memories of our time in Greece.
