Two down, one to go

We had three big problems to solve when we got here and we've now addressed two of them. Yesterday and today were mostly sunny, in fact yesterday we put up the bimini, the first time we've really needed it since we arrived in Panama. The sun dried things out a bit and that gave us the opportunity to begin the on deck jobs.

Today we solved one of our compounded "self inflicted wounds". When we were de-commissioning New Morning I was removing the reef lines to stow them out of the sun. Nice idea, but I botched the execution and pulled one of the lines all the way through the trough without a messenger! Then we compounded the problem when Fay decided she would fish it through with some wire we have onboard, then managed to jam the wire in the trough! So today we opened up the trough (and Fay found a second opening in the starboard deck locker), cleared the jammed wire, pulled the reef line through and closed it all up.

The last problem is replacing the solar panels. Let's hope for a few more sunny days! We'd really like to get out of the marina and back to San Blas!