in spite of our late night arrival we where both up just after sunrise. aimee was doing her yoga again so i decided to head into budget and go find internet. i had been unable to get bgan going on the passage and i wanted to get an update on a tropical “trough” 600nm east of us moving in our direction. i headed over to lagoonies and fortunately the “trough” had...
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The original plan was to spend another day “working” here in virgin gorda and then head to St Marteen to try to deal with the outboard and pick up our dingy chaps at sunset for an overnight sail. Alas when i got up i discovered the weather window had moved in with the sub 1 meter seas ending at midnight tonight rather than noon tomorrow. aimee was happily doing yoga so i let her...
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a few days ago we moved from the bitter end over to saba rock. you can see bar on the right where we have had many rum punches and conch fritters and where we had our wedding reception. you are probably wondering why you have not been hearing about evenings on shore here. there are short answers budget and diet. i went though all the money aimee and i have spent this year on us comms and the...
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yes this really is me, the longest my hair has been ever! aimee had wanted to get up this morning at 630 and go for another early morning hike, again amazingly i was ok with this plan. in fact we both woke up before sunrise and where able to get some work in before heading off at 630. it was much cooler than the last afternoon hike but also less windy. it was also much harder for my sore calf...
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today i dropped aimee at the bitter end to take the ferry to gun creek and then hitchhiked to spanish town for groceries. while she was gone i got wordpress installed on my local computer and figured how to upload sites to our server. around 3 aimee returned and suggested we go for a harbor cruise. i was ready to declare victory on the computer so after aimee made a snack and a martini with 4...
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