Mike awakes at three in the morning and announces that the generator has stopped. This therefore means that the air conditioning has stopped as well, so whereas I was fast asleep and oblivious, I am now wide awake and hot. He tries to get it going a couple of times with no luck, so we just open the hatches and pray for no rain or mosquitoes. We are lucky.
He has another go in the morning, and is down in his glory hole when there is a friendly knock on the side of the boat. Never have I been so glad to see Jock from TMM, who’s on the scrounge for some drinking water. He goes down the hole and takes a look but he has a limited time to help as he is on the way to a dive, so he gives the number of the guy that TMM uses, and Mike contacts him, arranging for an engineer to meet us at The Baths, Virgin Gorda, as they are based just around the corner in Spanish Town.
Photo: Cheryl, Doug, Megan and Will at Cooper Island
We motor over to The Baths, taking practically the last mooring ball, and Mike takes everyone ashore to do the usual trail through the rocks. Within half an hour, the engineer arrives, and twenty minutes, two beers and $95 later, the generator is fixed.
They return and we motor over to Trellis Bay. It is the Full Moon Party tonight and the bay is packed. There are no mooring balls available so Mike takes Jeannius around to the other side, behind The Last Resort. There are no balls there either but we are able to anchor. We can then sit and watch other boats, specifically two huge motor fishing boats try and anchor. One of them pulls up the anchor four times before actually settling into a much smaller space than the one he started in. The other actually parks in the middle of the channel, causing a ferry driver to shout to him to move but he ignores him. He might feel differently in the morning when the large industrial ferry goes past and knocks into him!
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