Well the plan had always been to sail south to avoid any hurricanes so this morning at breakfast when discussing the latest weather we decided to do just that. the 8am email came in with a 60% chance of a tropical cyclone forming in the next 48 hours and a prediction it would hit the south part of the leeward islands the same time. we decided to head south to St George Grenada, about 35 nm...
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eventually i tore my self away from thoughts of the genset to focus on the day at hand. we had originally invited waka irie over for a beach bonfire/bbq but after getting nailed by little no see-ums/sand-flea things last night we where having second thoughts. the one piece of good news was jen was able to find our bag of about 50 oysters that had been hung off the back of palapa but somehow got...
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Well today has to be one of the most expensive frustrating sucky days i have every had. It started out normally enough I was up early running the genset (panda 6KW), checking weather (there is a tropical 72 hours out). Then I heard the genset slow a bit, concerned, i unloaded it, moments later it died and when i tried to restart it it would not turn over. i immediately expected and feared the...
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in spite of our late night party, past midnight according to our camera we decided we needed to get underway for a prettier spot for some swimming and relaxing. with a bit of pain we finally got the anchor up and underway. as you can see from the photo’s it was well worth the effort! took about an hour to motor around to white island. this is one of our favorite “baby”...
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so we managed to get beer in the refer and bread for some tapanad appetizers jen and aimee where planning with no problem. however for a while it it looked like it would be only the 4 of us again as at 5pm the other boat we had invited was still not on their mooring. finally around 6pm we say the other boat return and i dingied over to tell them they where late. finally around 7pm the 5 of...
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