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slapdash fun day! – 29 oct
so of course the fun never end with the slappers the next day was another epic slapdash fun day. we headed out through the east exit in north sound and anchored just inside a reef. did some snorkeling and even found some under water cannons the slappers had taken guests to earlier. it was a rock star event all round. its great to have friends in the charter business! you can see that captain seth was the real winner but i was happy to let him bask in glory. it is true that the captain always scores the hot chicks! another thank you to them...
read moreslapper suprise welcome home! – 28 oct 2012
after 13 hours of travel time i walked out of the beef island airport and what did i finally see but the missing slappers! i had once again fallen “victim” to their wily ways! there they where in full moorings attire with a welcome “Rog” sign and a rum and coke! it was the best welcome back i could have hoped for as i was going to have to catch a ferry up to virgan gorda. apparently aimee had run into them and hatched the plan only that morning. we went back to their 46 foot moorings cat parked right off the dingy dock...
read moreaimee’s trip to north sound – 22 oct
after a week or two trellis aimee was making too many friends to get any work done so she decided to take palapa up north sound. here are a couple of photos she snapped on her solo trip up. cheers, roger ...
read moreYet another work trip! – 17 to 28 oct 2012
before i knew it i was booked for another work trip back to la/Ensenada for rev 2 of the project. this trip was even more intense with a 36 hour straight work day starting at 7am in Ensenada working until 2 am, driving all through the night to san diego followed by all day meetings with my boss and vendors while driving up to la by happy hour on day 2 i was dead. fortunately after some confusion i met up with larry at a great little bar and introduced him to the boss over a few Guinness’s. this time i did not even fit a trip into...
read more“the hustle” trelis bay – 11 oct
after our fun in north sound we headed back to trelis to meet up with aragon who runs an art studio that aimee had been talking about working for. the job opportunity was for a “couple” and the dude was supposed to drive a boat. as it would turn out the boat driving was primarily for the “hustle” as the owner described it where you go around and sell fruit and vegies and tshirts and other stuff to the charter people. after much stalling i agreed to go on one “hustle”, yes that is me in the tshirt, i know i...
read morehappy hour at the bitter end – 7 oct 2012
normally the bitter end is out of our range but saba was not yet open and we where a bit tiered of leveric so we decided to give it another shot. we managed to get in for happy hour so we could afford a couple drinks (almost) but called it an early night and made our way back to palapa not the best photography but at least you can tell where we are cheers, roger ...
read morebeach bochi party! – 6 oct 2012
so after a 4 or 5 days on our own relaxing finally met up with the slappers at leveric. they had a fun couple on board and we had some drinks and burgers on leveric with everyone. we met a dutch couple as well parked next to the slappers. we invited everyone on a beach bochi the next day but alas the slappers had to work and could not make it. the dutch couple worked for KLM (he was a captain and she was a stu) and they turned out to be a ton of fun. after lunch we headed over to our favorite now deserted beach across from leveric and...
read morewelcome back roger event – 2 oct 2012
well we wasted no time again heading up to north sound on virgin gorda for the welcome back roger event. was another fun romantic event as we still have not found the slappers and there where still no boats around. after popping a bottle of champagne we decided to head to the now deserted beach across from leveric for more salmon on the beach. delicous as always we definatly have a great charter treat when we start margarita charters! another day in paradise and a great welcome home! cheers roger ...
read morework trip from hell – 18 sept to 2 oct 2012
well i would like to say the trip back to the real working world brought back fond memories but i would be lying. the work was interesting but after 10 non stop 16 hour days travel from la to ensenada mexico and back i was exhausted and really missing life on palapa the only upside was i did manage to work a trip into husongs with the new boss cheers,...
read morerefuling back at trelis – 18 sept
headed back to marina cay to top palapa off with fuel so aimee has plenty to charge batteries while i am back in the states. was another beautiful day and we did a flawless docking job even with the wind blowing us off the dock and no help. topped off with water as well as the water maker is not giving us 100% these days. should be another fun exciting and expensive project after a practice anchoring off marina cay for aimee we headed across to trelis and had a great final dinner at the last resort with aimee’s various trellis...
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