so true to his word marcello came by after breakfast and started work on the holes in the bathroom. the new head requiered new holes and left behind 4 old ones. i did not really notice these but aimee did not consider them “charter” ready and rejected my white duct tape idea. the night before marcello had hot glued 1/8 inch fiberglass in behind the holes and this am he mixed up...
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so i managed to wake up at 5am just before the alarm and was rewarded by nicer conditions. still wind but swells down substantially. the moon was still up and close to full so i had no problem navigating around the mooring balls and out of the anchorage. the plan had been to go back to peter island to install all the parts i had purchased at home depot but as i started on my kitchen sink...
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so we had a pretty full schedule today. dropped off laundry then took the publico, aimee to the interior stuff store and me to the home depot. i spent about an hour wandering around checking off things on my list; new faucet for kitch sink, water filter for new faucet, new towel racks for guest head, new u bolts to hold engel down, batteries. i managed to get everything and then hiked down to...
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we are getting pretty good a bouncing back and forth between the bvi and the usvi. would be even easier if i could figure out the frequent boater web site so we could skip the in person check in on the us end. we left village cay around 8am for a nice leisurely downwind sail to st thomas. aimee spent the trip recovering from all the polishing and i relaxed and sailed. we got in just in time to...
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so yesterday aimee made the mistake of commenting that she finally felt ok with the boats appearance. i interpreted this to mean we should take palapa over to meet our broaker this am. my ulterior motive as to check out seth’s new boat as well in village cay. apparently ready was not quite “ready” so after a frantic morning of more stainless polishing we where back to the ready...
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after another day working we where surprised by seth and jaimee bringing their new lagoon 48 by (sorry no picture). this was even bigger then the one they had last year with a forward porch. they had guest on board for their last night so we made the visit brief. seth is actually getting a 58 to replace this so we will have to go check this out as well! cheers roger ...
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