Day 98, Year 5: W & W Day
Date: Monday, February 1, 2010
Weather: Warm and Hazy
Location: Bolgatty Hotel Anchorage, Cochin (Kochi), India
W for work and W for waiting. That is what today was all about. Mark spent his entire day waiting for Nazar to come to work on the refrigeration and then once he came, waiting to see the outcome, and then waiting for Nazar’s boss to come to help make a final diagnosis. Not good. The diagnosis was that our compressor does not have the pressure necessary to run the freezer system. So Nazar and his boss are going to try and find a 12 volt compressor, but it is not something they think is available in this country. Because we are in a 220 volt world and on a 110 volt boat, we will probably have to order from the US or just do without a freezer. Ouch!
While Mark was waiting, I decided to work on the stainless. I actually thought that I would just work for an hour or two, that Nazar would come and fix the freezer, and that Mark and I would go to town in the afternoon to try and find the SIM card for our 3G modem. We still do have not internet on the boat and if things keep going as they have, we might never make it to town to see if the SIM card is available here. Instead of cleaning stainless for an hour or two, I worked the entire day until Nazar and his boss left around 5 pm. And still I probably have another whole day of work to finish the job. Ugh!
I an exhausted from working all day and Mark is just as exhausted from waiting all day.
So our plan is to go to bed early, get a good night’s rest, and go to town in the morning to get our wireless going on the boat. After that, we’ll just go with the flow. Ed and Lynne went to town today and went to the International Book Fair that is part of the Arts and Cultural Fair that is happening on shore. Evidently the Book Fair is really fantastic, so we will stop by there tomorrow as well. One of these days, hopefully VERY soon, we will be able to relax and enjoy Cochin. But for now, it is work first, play later.
