Day 19 – April 18

There were no huge gusts of wind last night that blew off our covers and it was comfortable sleeping.  We awake to a parade of boats leaving the harbor.  We see at least 6 to 7 boats leaving, including two Geminis. I do some laundry before we leave on Friday.  We were told that we may be able to find the tubing for our generator at Advance Auto Parts, which was right before the bridge.  The problem was that we failed to inquire which bridge so we headed towards the seven mile bridge.  Well that was incorrect as it was the small bridge in Marathon, about 3 ½ miles away.  We do stop at a motor cycle shop thinking that they might have the part, but no luck, although they did state that we could find it at another parts place, but not in walking distance.  We come back to the boat and have lunch, and I work on cleaning the starboard hull. 

After showers, we dingy over to some friends from NSB and have cocktails on their boat with some other friends from St Augustine.  They are in a slip for the next couple of weeks before heading north.  They had been in the Bahamas for the last 6 weeks, and it was windy and chilly in the Abacos.  They wished they had delayed their trip a month as it was still chilly there.  Back home we have left overs.