A land based day today with time spent at the laundromat before and after a slow breakfast, talking to some locals while we waited for our clothes to dry and then finally off to explore. We walked around to Seahorse World and did the tour of this commercial seahorse display and breeding centre. Then off to the Beauty Point shopping precinct notable for its small size.
Alas Beauty Point doesn't run to a bakery as such but we did manage a lunch at the local cafe overlooking the Tamar, took on some more stores at the supermarket and then wound our way back to the boat. Walked around to the Dalrymple YC to arrange a fuel top up for the next morning and had a bit of a chin wag with a local who is converting a trawler for leisure use.
Late in the day, the autopilot was tackled once again. Previously rebuilt but assembled with a grease that turned out to be too stiff for the delicate little gears of the drive mechanism, the drive had to be stripped down completely to enable the gearbox to be cleaned of all traces of the stiff grease and reassembled with just a smattering of a more appropriate lubricant.
It all appeared to work this time but the test will be the morrow's sailing.
