Beautiful sunrise this morning.. ask me how I know…
How do I know? Funny you should ask… woken at 6AM by a high pitched noise… is it Bernard calling to another inflatable Orca? No… Is it a depth alarm? No we didn’t set one… it is almost certainly a battery alarm. Is there a problem with any of the batteries? Well after half an hour of investigation I was confident that there was not! So we’ll assume that was a false alarm and photograph the sunrise before facing today’s bigger problem.
We need to talk about Toilets…. if you are about to eat skip forward to ***
Yacht toilets pump seawater in… and waste out. Simple enough. When we are moored up beautiful bays like this.
We close a valve and waste goes into a holding tank. When we are far out at sea we open the valve and the waste is safely released.
Now what you never want to happen is the tank outlet to block… Let me cut a long story short….. we discovered last night that ours was blocked….
This is when a) having a yacht with two toilets is super handy and b) being on a flotilla with a lead crew who are responsible for fixing stuff is even handier.
I’m not going to give you a picture for this one but basically you block the vent and pump to pressurise the system until the ‘blockage’ can hold back no longer….
My my…
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OK toilet fixed.
We left just before this lot arrived.
22 miles sailing in really nice wind.
Down a long channel gybing to avoid running dead down wind then up to the island of Paeleo Trikeri.
The wind is basically a sea breeze blowing off the islands… so manged to do a full 360° from the bottom of this route to the top!
Bernard had a swim.
And here is our rather picturesque but seriously cramped harbour for the night.
Off for a walk to try and find the monastery….