Pump story

A phone call from Trevor of the local chandlery “Yacht Grot” : Have I got a surprise for you!! Can you guess what it is?

I couldn’t so he told me that a parcel had arrived – one that none of us had expected to see. Robert had ordered from Yacht Grot a salt/fresh water pump. It was posted, airmail, on 8 November last year, destination Papeete, Tahiti. By the time that Pachuca was ready to leave on 21 November it had not arrived. Robert left a forwarding address (Arnold’s home) at the Bureau de Poste. The forwarding address was written on the package but so was a sticker detailing two payments owing ‘magasinage’ and ‘renoi’ (keeping it in the PO and forwarding it?)

There was no one to pay the 12.03 French Polynesian francs. Ultimately the package was sent on its way to the return address, completing its round trip on 28 June, still unopened.

Only a few days ago I had purchased another pump just the same for Pachuca. Trevor offered to give me a refund on that one and so now I will be able to take the prodigal pump to Seattle.

Post Written by Brenda N.