we decided to head over to soper hole to check out and head over to the usvi but discovered along the way that double d was heading over and needed a fan belt for the genny or shore power so their owners could have a final night in air conditioning. i could not find a belt but seth organized to have one delivered. by the time he showed up there where no moorings so we dropped ours so they could pick one up and went out to anchor. it is great having a ton of chain so we can anchor deep but the last 100 feet are getting very rusty so every-time we drop more than 200 we get rust everywhere. need to get new chain (again)
in any case after anchoring we headed over to the old pirates now fish and lime for happy hour. the drinks are big which is disconcerting but they are still good. we ran into tom there and while i made plans to go hang with seth and jamie while their guests where at full moon aimee and tom decided to take his van up to the bamba shack for the monthly full moon mushroom tea event (they of course did not have any mushrooms) the concept of getting in a car to drive a way from the boat after dark was not at all appealing to me so i was happy aimee had someone to “watch out” for her.
i hung with seth until i could not stay awake and then headed back to palapa. i eventually fell asleep and tom dropped off aimee in the wee hours.
cheers
roger
Did you swim back to “Palapa”? I remember a few middle of the night splashes after a night of hard drinking on my boat…