Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Tuesday
Mitch has been certified .... as an Open Water diver ! So we had a few beers at the point before our banca taxi back to SB. We tried the PG yacht club for dinner and participated in research for their new menu - the Malay Lamb curry will be very good.
Wednesday
There was a plan to prepare some CD's fpr posting etc. but on trying to start the genset at 7am we found we have a problem. No sound - no action at all. Battery voltage was good so we plunged into looking for loose wires behind the control panel and then took all the covers off to get into the control box. Sweat flowed, Mitch learned new body contortions essential to work on the genset in it's confined space. No improvement beyond occasional clicks from the preheat switch. So having been through the difficult things we went back to basics and looked hard at the battery connnections - the + was not clean and solid - so we replaced the piece and it all worked. Covers back on - run the genset for the fridge and charger. Mitch did breaksfast while Hamish went to buy petrol for the dinghy - fuel prices here have risen sharply 27peso/L for petrol and P22 for diesel.
So we drove dinghy round to Asia Divers in time for an 11:30 dive - Mitchs first as a qualified OW diver. I have pix of it to show. Now ready for one more before we start preps for our sail tomorrow. Planning to go for about 40 hrs and cover 250 miles to get down to Leyte/Bohol area.
Reports mention a possible low developing between Philippines and Palau but say chance of significant storm is low so far. So we will watch it carefully.
Mitch Underwater
Mitch has been certified .... as an Open Water diver ! So we had a few beers at the point before our banca taxi back to SB. We tried the PG yacht club for dinner and participated in research for their new menu - the Malay Lamb curry will be very good.
Wednesday
There was a plan to prepare some CD's fpr posting etc. but on trying to start the genset at 7am we found we have a problem. No sound - no action at all. Battery voltage was good so we plunged into looking for loose wires behind the control panel and then took all the covers off to get into the control box. Sweat flowed, Mitch learned new body contortions essential to work on the genset in it's confined space. No improvement beyond occasional clicks from the preheat switch. So having been through the difficult things we went back to basics and looked hard at the battery connnections - the + was not clean and solid - so we replaced the piece and it all worked. Covers back on - run the genset for the fridge and charger. Mitch did breaksfast while Hamish went to buy petrol for the dinghy - fuel prices here have risen sharply 27peso/L for petrol and P22 for diesel.
So we drove dinghy round to Asia Divers in time for an 11:30 dive - Mitchs first as a qualified OW diver. I have pix of it to show. Now ready for one more before we start preps for our sail tomorrow. Planning to go for about 40 hrs and cover 250 miles to get down to Leyte/Bohol area.
Reports mention a possible low developing between Philippines and Palau but say chance of significant storm is low so far. So we will watch it carefully.
Mitch Underwater
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