Third World Water Fill
It was a dark and stormy night ~ Oh, wait that is a future blog post!
It was a sunny and calm day, and Free Spirit was in need of replenishing her water supply. So Captain Smyth decided that we needed to practice a 'third country' water fill. There will be many places in the world that we travel to where there will not be the convenience of a dock to pull up to and fill the tanks. As you can see, during this daring and amazing trick, we also had Raoul at the top of the mast installing the crow's nest netting that he hand made for us.
The first step was to set a bow anchor and basically run aground withe the stern, and then set a stern line ashore.
Shep and Valin Heading in to set the stern line.
Everyone in the crew was directly involved except me, the ships photographer, who wasquite busy on shore taking care of all the gawkers who could not help but wonder what the heck we were doing.
Everyone in the crew was directly involved except me, the ships photographer, who wasquite busy on shore taking care of all the gawkers who could not help but wonder what the heck we were doing.
Here is Shep looking a tad bit uncertain about swimming through the alligator infested, dark and dirty Caloosahatchee River, to bring the hose aboard from shore. We had to borrow hose from all around to have enough to reach from the tanks all the way to behind the shower house in the boat yard. I would guess about 200 feet all together.
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