On May 24, 1:00*pm, Tim wrote:
On May 24, 9:18*am, Frogwatch wrote:

My lack of a water pump belt at West End in the Bahamas required I
spend an entire day getting said belt from Freeport. *Most boats at
West End are bizaaro expensive and they would be willinbg to pay
nearly anything to get their parts quickly.
So...someone start a part delivery business from Freeport to any
isolated marina in Grand Bahama Island..
At West End there is no store for fishermen although fishing is THE
major industry there. *Someone needs to start a store next to the
marina at West End selling stuff just for fishermen.

Getting rid of conch shells is a problem on GBI. *So, bring thousands
of them to the USA and sell them for $1 each. *Use a band saw to cut
off the spiral portion at the end and mount them onto flat coconut
husk pieces as coasters.

Dude! I apreciate reading about your adventures, but why did the belt
blow off? *if something out-of-the-blue happened, to it I can accept
that, but if it was crusty and shot tobegin with, then why didn't you
check it out before you left?

I'm not questioning your MO, but before I took a trip like that I'd
look some stuff over a bit better

Belt did NOT blow off or even fail. It probably would have continued
to work indefinitely but it did have a thinner spot so ti seemed best
to replace it. I also had an old used one aboard I could have used.
What caused the pump to loosen was the extreme choppiness in the Gulf
Stream.
The boat next to us was using Chris Parker's forecast and he was
saying there was a reasonable chance of development of a tropical low
producing 30 kt wind from the north. The thin belt allowed me to wait
a day to see what would happen without my daughter feeling like I was
wasting their time.