WIND APP, RECYCLING and NEW YAMAHA CONNECTED – 15 and 16 June,
Days 52 and 53
We did not manage to register in the WIND shop the other day
to the My WIND app which we need to monitor wifi useage and to pay for the
monthly service. The man said try tomorrow. At home on Friday we tried and
received a message to enter the code number sent to us by sms. Ha! - Difficult
when the sim card is in a portable modem. We tried putting the sim into a phone
since the package allows calls and sms, but no sign of any sms from the
company. It is all too complicated, and familiar – how many times in Malta have
I been into a Vodafone shop before everything worked? The only solution was to
drive again 30 minutes to the shop in Ragusa. Now we can see it working. The
final challenge will be that it works for us in Greece, as it does for friends.
Our winter Marina di Ragusa live-aboard community have been
great in many ways. One is that people put things they don’t need under the
pagoda on the main pontoon. We all live in small spaces and need to clear
clutter. I am happy that we found a number of items there which have been
useful to us. Other useful items have been found at the rubbish and recycling
bins, including packaging material. Today we cut some into shapes for our needs
and Anita for fun made me a hat from an off-cut. That material has good insulation
and my head was warm in the cool wind!
On Saturday finally the new outboard motor was delivered and
connected. Electric start will be really easy to use. High thrust gearing and
larger propeller will be more effective. The alternator will put some charge
back into the batteries. The Yamaha dealer network is widespread should I need
it. I will take the manual start Parsun to Malta to sell to a local person who
is happy to pull to start and have a local dealer for servicing and spares.
We made final cleaning and provisioning and are ready to
start our journey tomorrow morning. The wind is favourable in direction,
starting light and increasing again in the afternoon so we plan to leave early
and get away from this windy zone. As well as the cost of motor and making new
cables we had to pay for another half month in the marina, further depleting
finances, but we enjoyed the facilities and location for a little longer.
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