Marina Rubicon - Disaster Strikes

Our day started off with a power failure. The reason according to marina staff is that the power always goes off when rains. It must have rained for about 15 minutes last night. A few hours later we had power again.

A quiet day. We are planning to leave tomorrow and I changed the engine oil.

Back in Graciosa I saw a small cockroach but did not catch it. Today the critter appeared again and I got him. One of these
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A male German cockroach about a cm long. We may get lucky depending on where he came from. If he has hatched from a cluster of eggs that came aboard with produce we are in big trouble. If he came aboard already hatched hidden in something we may be lucky if he is a one off.

We have had poison out for several weeks but it didn't get him. Our anti cockroach arsenal will be reinforced at the next big port.

Off to Fuerteventura tomorrrow.