Ensemble - Panama City - Repairs, Shopping and Panama Hats

Greetings from yacht Ensemble.

We had an early start, with the Rigger (Mike), Volvo (Gerardo) and Cummins (Jim) all showing up in the morning.  It's sort of like 'London buses'.  It was a relief that the support had finally shown up - and a bit ironic that they all showed up at once.  Everyone on the dock seemed to need some work done - so it was good business for all.

We got the Volvo port engine charging problem sorted and are coming to service the Volvos next week.  The Marine Air air-conditioning guys seemed to isolate the problem and are ordering another board - and are coming to service the Cummins next week.  The rigger is coming on Monday with a machinist to make up a piece for the Z-spar mast where the Genaker Halyard goes through the mast (Multihulls / Fountaine Pajot haven't provided the mast part numbers - and it isn't even written on the mast plate!) and fitting it all by Thursday.  So hopefully by end of next week I'll have a sail boat that sails again!

Unfortunately it means that Magali will be making the trip to visit Rod and Dalma in Washington/New York alone - so I miss out on a week of shopping and restaurants!

We spent the afternoon on shopping provisions trip 2.  This time we went to Pacific Mall - definately 'high end' - with Hermes, Louis Vutton, Rolex and Jimmy Choo all with a large presence.  Fortunately (yeah) there were sails on - so we 'saved' a fortune.  We also did round 2 of the food shopping (only frozen, fresh and drinks to go).

Today is 'movie' day - and we will try and catch the latest Sherlock Holmes film.

Cheers

Dave & Magali