I didn’t get much sleep last night and woke up hot tired and
grumpy.
Dave (Fonster) called up on the radio this morning telling me he has alternator
problems and he has left for Benoa Harbour in Bali to get repairs done and a
short time later I watched them sailing past.
I relaxed on the boat until around 11 am and then took the
dinghy to shore.
Putu and Iyan were coming over to Gili Trawangan on the fast
ferry from Bali and I was looking forward to having some company again.
Shortly after picking up Putu and Iyan and transferring them
and their luggage back to sirocco a massive rain squall struck confining us to
indoors for the rest of the day.
The wind got up over 45 knots at times and the poor folks on
Fonster had a tough time getting back to Bali arriving around 9pm.
With not a lot else to do in these conditions, I washed the
boat in the pouring rain while thunder and lightning raged all around us. Later
on we enjoyed a nice home cooked dinner and watched a movie.
Once again, I was rudely awakened around 3am with a large
boat smacking the poor dinghy under our cockpit and threatening to cause server
damage to our cockpit hard top.
I had to act quick and so I raised Putu and Iyan for help. I
needed to unlock the dinghy tether before I could move it and I threw the key
ring to Iyan while I was holding onto the huge boats bow jerking violently up
and down threatening to smash everything including me.
The key ring only had three keys, but in the heat of the
moment it seemed to take Iyan five minutes to find the right one. Eventually he
got the lock open and we could move the dinghy from under the bridge deck and
once clear, I moved it to the port side of the boat where I secured it to use
it as a fender to keep this dam local boat from causing any further damage.
It was a good move and we were able to retire for the night,
shaken but not stirred.
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