so this morning at our morning meeting i put pool on the agenda for 1600. we had been here for 5 days and had yet to find the pool. around 2pm i decided we needed to push the pool event up to 3pm. just to confirm this decision one of the marina staff stopped by to let us know there was a pool and recommend we check it out. apparently we where working too hard! just to cement things he offered...
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not having the head to work on allowed me to focus most of my energy on building a new cockpit table to house the new engel freezer. for as long as i can remember i have dreamed of being able to flip up the table and pull cold beers and ice out of the cockpit table. but as i had always feared this is easier said than done. first i removed the table from the cockpit and put it on the dock. ...
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we had an amazingly fast passage and arrived in the usv just after sunrise. i had some great wind and was flying along at more than 10kts before i finally took the poled in geono down. i was treated to a great sunrise and a rainbow over the little island i had picked for our breakfast stop and final swim. aimee got up long enough to pick up the mooring and then went down for a nap. after a...
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any day when you get ribs and caviar has to be a winner, especially if you through an amazing sail in on top of it! that pretty much sums up our final day in st martin we did spend the morning getting my ENG1 physical so i can now drive mega yachts for hire, not sure how mega i can go at this point but for the time being i just need to worry about palapa. after aimee checked us out in our new...
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so after bit of confusion getting together with aimee (the mc Donald’s with free internet only opens at 10am) we finished up yet another charter prep email to our broker. i think we finally have our rates set and out “romance” package defined. it remains to be seen if any of this gets out to the customer. i think we will end up doing our own marketing! after this we headed...
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