Well, as you can see we did make it to Mandraki Harbour. On Monday morning an engineer came
early to look at the bow thruster.
The problem was not with the break pin accessible from the inside of the
boat. When this happened last year
we had to have the boat lifted out of the water to sort it out. But here they suggest that a diver go
down and look at it. So within
about an hour a diver came. He
didn’t even use a tank, just free dived with a snorkel. He took photos of the thing trying to
spin and found that the nut holding the propeller on had come loose, just like
last time. But he was able to
tighten it up in the water, and so by lunchtime we had a working bow thruster.
At the same time Richard organized a hire car for us for the next three
days. As it was getting on in the
day we decided to stay in the marina for another night. We had a good domestic afternoon. My phone ran out of charge so we topped
that up in Rhodes new town and then did some shopping. We met up with the family in the
evening. They came to the boat
where we had drinks and then we went into Rhodes old town. We walked around and had dinner. We have parked the car in Mandraki
Harbour right where we were moored before. After dinner we decide to leave it there so it will be easy
for us to pick up when we move the boat back to Mandraki. We walk to the end of town and find a
taxi to take us back to the boat.
On Tuesday we left the marina at about 9:30, went out to sea to dump the
tank and got back into Mandraki by 11:30.
We are moored in nearly the same place as before, but we are on a pick
up line which means that we have not had to put the anchor out and are not in
danger of a snagged anchor on the way out. That is a relief especially as we saw one boat unsnagging
his anchor from another on our way in!
I am now preparing for our departure. We have a ton of laundry including all our linens. We find the local laundry and leave two
large bags of washing with them to collect tomorrow morning. Then we have brunch at Starbucks to get
their wifi before going to Haraki to meet up with the family. After a very late night last night they
are emerging rather slowly and we wind up having a late lunch on their beach
and a dip in the sea before going to Lindos for the evening. We managed to buy Abi a tee shirt and a
new pair of sandals. We thought we
were doing really well before we managed to lose Molly! She is a terror. She just wanders off all the time. But usually she is in view, but this
time we couldn’t find her anywhere.
It took nearly half an hour of searching with half the shop keepers on
the street looking for her before they tracked her down. Mind you, I am not sure Colin isn’t
getting his comeuppance in this. I
can’t count the number or times we lost him as a child because he too was
always running off!
So with one contrite Molly we have dinner. By the time we finish it is very late again. We don’t get back to the boat until midnight. Can’t post this as we won’t have
internet until the morning.
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