Salvador
An early start this morning. I was up at 5:30 to cover the sails and get the boat ready for mooring.
First stop was a trip to the bunker barge a few 100 metres away to fill up with diesel and top up with gasoline for the outboard. I took 70 litres of diesel at R$2.14 per litre. Back in March when I took diesel here it was R$1.89 per litre. However, the last time I checked the Real was 3.75 to the pound compared with around 3.30 in March.
It was difficult to avoid the tyre fendering on the barge which left some nasty black marks on my cream hull. Kiriwina was all fast at Centro Nautico, Salvador, by 07:45.
A quick hello to Manfred on "Maus" who is sailing tomorrow for New Zealand via the Kergulen islands. A voyage of some 4 months and 11,000 miles.
My first job was battery replacement. I took a taxi up to Xavier Paim & Cie. They had the batteries I wanted and with outstanding service delivered them to the boat complete with a mechanic to assist with installation and testing at 12:00.
This time I went for basic 100 A/H lead acid batteries, Turbo, made in Brazil. The price was an eye watering R$430, about twice the UK price.
I hope they will do better than the even more expensive Vetus "maintenance free" "marine" batteries I bought on Lanzarote (at a cost of €320 for two) which after only 11 months have started to fail and are not holding charge. Outrageous.
Then I went to Dufor chandlers to source some stainless steel wire rope to secure the dinghy. They had the rope at R$19.6 per metre but were not able to clamp eyes at the ends for me. Looks like I will have to try and revive long forgotten wire splicing skills.
First stop was a trip to the bunker barge a few 100 metres away to fill up with diesel and top up with gasoline for the outboard. I took 70 litres of diesel at R$2.14 per litre. Back in March when I took diesel here it was R$1.89 per litre. However, the last time I checked the Real was 3.75 to the pound compared with around 3.30 in March.
It was difficult to avoid the tyre fendering on the barge which left some nasty black marks on my cream hull. Kiriwina was all fast at Centro Nautico, Salvador, by 07:45.
A quick hello to Manfred on "Maus" who is sailing tomorrow for New Zealand via the Kergulen islands. A voyage of some 4 months and 11,000 miles.
My first job was battery replacement. I took a taxi up to Xavier Paim & Cie. They had the batteries I wanted and with outstanding service delivered them to the boat complete with a mechanic to assist with installation and testing at 12:00.
This time I went for basic 100 A/H lead acid batteries, Turbo, made in Brazil. The price was an eye watering R$430, about twice the UK price.
I hope they will do better than the even more expensive Vetus "maintenance free" "marine" batteries I bought on Lanzarote (at a cost of €320 for two) which after only 11 months have started to fail and are not holding charge. Outrageous.
Then I went to Dufor chandlers to source some stainless steel wire rope to secure the dinghy. They had the rope at R$19.6 per metre but were not able to clamp eyes at the ends for me. Looks like I will have to try and revive long forgotten wire splicing skills.
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