We woke up this am wondering “where are all the people” there was no one in the mooring field except for a few random boats, the shore looked deserted. we would find out later this was partially because it was “turnover day” with the moorings so everyone was probably back in totolla. aimee got to work putting tiki on the raft. perfect timing as we expect to finally pick...
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we got up quite early, the sun comes up at 545am down, here and while aimee was doing yoga i got online. we are getting daily updates on hurricanes now from noaa so i always go check their site when i get the email. today it looked like it was going to be pretty calm for the next 24 hours with less than 1 meter seas and less than 15 kts of wind so i decided we should head east. it was only...
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surprisingly enough after almost a week in culebra town we where ready to get out of dodge. don was leaving with his crew to head to the DR so after a quick trip to shore to top of the internet on the phone we headed out. we decided to head back to cubalitra (baby culebra) but this time we picked up a mooring of the south side so we could still have internet. the pickup was a bit dicey as i was...
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Ever since we bough a new motor in St Marteen I have been trying to get rid of the old 4 stroke 6hp merc i got with palapa back in 2006. aimee had put some flyers up a couple of weeks ago and we finally got a call from someone interested enough in actually coming over to see the motor. they even brought an extra dingy up the mile trip in anticipation. of course the motor had not been run in...
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today after i got don to help out slicing my new snubber line onto my hook i decided to do the zinc change. its pretty easy with the hooka and the water was perfect. aimee took a photo of the zincs and the bottom and its amazing how much “fuzz” we have on the bottom after 2 weeks? i cant help but wonder if this is normal or if our paint is some how no longer doing its thing. i...
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