Monday, May 8, 1995 - Boqueron, Puerto Rico

Got up at six feeling great. Sanded and varnished the second coat while Roy snoozed. Roy woke up at nine feeling much, much better. His eyes are bright and his cheeks are pink again. In fact, he felt so much better that he fetched ten gallons of water and then went in to Mayaguez to buy a spare alternator! To make the day perfect, our new inverter arrived. Yay! Now we can leave any time we want to, and I can cook with the microwave. No more pressure cooker to wash -- hooray! I went to the post office, got my mail, and left a change-of- address form. Picked up some groceries and then went to Schafer and Brown to get the inverter. The package was larger than I had expected. Had a hard time carrying it and the groceries back to my Royak and an even harder time getting them in the Royak. Another boater offered to take the package to the boat in his dinghy, but luckily Roy showed up just then and managed to get it in his Royak. Roy reached the boat a couple of minutes before I did, but the line to his Royak got away from him and his Royak started drifting merrily away. Boy, did I laugh as I towed Mr. Royak's Royak back to him!