Sunday 2 October 2016

Tropical Storm Matthew

I moved from Sainte Anne Anchorage to Anse Mitan with a stop at Anse d'Arlet for a short change of scenery when the troubles started ....

On Friday night around midnight my water pump started to run making an unusual noise, then the bilge pump. I straight away jumped in the bilge to see what was going on. The water was coming from under the bed so 2 solutions , the water maker membranes (which I was sure and hopped it really wasn't) and the Hot water Tank. That's it! the Hot water Tank. I do remember it happened once so I turned off water pump and hot water service. Emptied the tank and filled it up again. Fixed. I guess as I left the hot water service on since but rarely use the hot water from it, it built pressure and boom!
On the Saturday morning going to the outside fridge, it wouldn't close or open... means it stayed quarter open for a little while I managed to fix it. Fixed!
Between my IPhone stopped working...
And then, pfffff, while babysitting a son's friends a sailing boat from the military school failed his tack and bumped into Sephina! For them it was an open day and the skipper was with 5 beginners on board. Could you believe that at the speed he arrived toward Sephina one of the crew girl try to stop the impact putting her legs forward, fell in the water (better than ending with an open broken leg uh?!) and  the skipper jumped overboard, I dunno why but he did, leaving the beginners alone on board till he could jump on again...Weird!
Anyway there the damage :



Not finished yet...
As a storm was building up I sailed back to Sainte Anne. First big storm experience by myself, Freaky!
Here pics and video of Tropical storm Matthew Cat 2 when he passed over, we've been reaching 61.3 knots of wind. Matthew turned hurricane Cat 4 around two days after.