I took a Dramamine today before going ashore and felt a lot better. Not 100% but way better than before. So I thanks Joe (on sailboatowners.com) for the idea. I walked around a lot and ate some really good Snapper at Edgewater restaurant/bar even though it took a long time coming but I had nowhere to go. I felt better about the place after seeing all of the locals that came in while I was waiting to pickup phone-in orders.
So today I waited for the slack water to to in and go through the narrow opening into the Lake Victoria but of course hit the incoming tide leaving and I can't believe the current under that bridge. I had the 3 1/2 HP wide open and hardly moved through it. Not near the waves outside so didn't get soaked going to the boat.
Notice the depth of the back of the dinghy above as it gets into the current and he has to give it some gas and it sinks and the bow comes up. Now...
... as he is in the current and on a lot of gas the back goes down even further. It is an interesting ride through there with the current. Right now the tides are running a little over 3 feet and all the water to fill and drain Lake Victoria on those 3 foot changes goes under that bridge.
I was going to drain the carb this morning but it started right up but then died a couple hundred yards from the boat like it was out of gas. Got it started and ran it a lot harder and it never died again. I did drain the carb when I got back to the boat. I'm thinking there was some water that was plugging the main jet at part throttle and when I finally ran it WOT that it sucked it through, just a thought and I'll never know.
I ran out of money, what I took ashore, so will get more from my stash and go back in tomorrow and get more groceries as they have a well stocked store right at the dinghy dock. I also found this little general purpose store that had about two to three times more merchandise that what looked like would fit in there. The aisles were very narrow. They even had a weight belt so bought it and one 3 lb weight. Anyone have any idea how much weight I need with a full suit and with a partial suit (short legs/short arms)? I'd bought another belt and some weight some years back but not sure where it is, probably on the Endeavour. Most items on these islands are very expensive compared t what we are use to paying but they had fairly large SS carabiners for less than I' found in the states so I bought a couple as I use them on everything.
I also got water from a spigot on the dinghy dock and a lady and her husband that were there, had just got to Georgetown, asked if she could test it for salinity and I said yes and she pulled out a tester and put it in the water and said that if was good at 300 something. She said under 300 was better but that this was fine. Thought that was interesting. Not sure if I'll need to drink the water or not. I started with 62 gallons total with 12 of that being water from the grocery store in the 2 1/2 gallon and 1 gallon sized containers and still have 33 1/2 gallons left at the moment. I drink as much or more than I use for washing dishes and sponge baths. I could of probably made the whole trip on what I started with but tomorrow will fill up 2 other 4 gallon containers and maybe use some of that for washing cloths if I don't do that at Rocky Point. I washed cloths twice with rain water from inside the dinghy (had some salt water in it) and that worked well but I had painted the dinghy flooring with some blue paint and it is coming off in little specks in the saltwater environment so had the blue specs on the cloths and towels so probably won't wash like that again, at least not the towel,
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