Musings by Shar
Boat parts are expensive. That’s the ‘price we have to pay’ for owning a boat. Sometimes, the part at least looks like it could be expensive. Or if it doesn’t look expensive at least it might be big. Or if it isn’t big at least it is difficult to find to merit costing so much.
This last part we needed was for our water maker’s high pressure pump. The pump has had a slow leak and getting worse since Mexico.
We had the part sent to a local business here in Papeete, Tahiti. The part, or in this case a series of small rubber O rings, seems like something we could pick up at a local hardware store for $20.00. Imagine our surprise when it cost $250.00 and then another $250.00 for import and duty charges! Maybe there’s gold in them there rings.
Cormacks On Cambria 
Yeah that sounds about right for a vessel .
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As you now well know a boat is a hole in the water into which one throws money and that hole is bottomless and wide as the ocean. Bill M But you are having the adventure of a life time. So go for it all the time.
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Yes, it feels bottomless and wide for sure. Thanks for the encouragement.
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To the good ship and crew of Cambria;
O rings or no rings That’s the question! Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the leaks, or the slings and arrows of outrageous loss of personal fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of water maker troubles, And by opposing – end them?
That tis the question!
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Good response… by an aspiring thespian. We chose the latter.
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