we took our time getting under way this am with aimee creating a new breakfast delight. this one is the gaucamole egg wrap. aimee starts with a thin egg omelet, this one had cheese and basil and a few other things. then wraps it burrito style around fresh gucaomole. not surprisingly it was delicious! we need to make sure we keep getting these great avocados!
around noon we finally got under way for another 8nm down wind sail. you can see from the photo it was so flat i was sitting in the stern seat working on the computer. no, not writing blogs actually “working” on a website. what a great office, now i just need someone to pay for this work!
we pulled into tyrell bay and where immediately surprised by a large number of cruising not charter boats. we had kind of wondered where all these people had gone. this island is actually part of grenada and we are only 15nm fro the grenada mainland so people feel prety comfortable waiting out hurricane season here only one day from trinadad which is officially out of the hurricane belt.
sietse and jen where happy to see us as their dingy is becoming more and more useless. so after dropping aimee on shore and checking out the local boatyard i brought them in for happy hour at the lucky turtle. drinks where a bit pricy, 10EC, but it was a nice spot on the water. aimee had made friends with a captain of a charter boat while waiting for us to arrive.
after spending more than our budget for happy hour i was trying to herd everyone together and head back to palapa when i heard “roger hayward!” is that “the roger hayward” i felt like i was flashing back to the george alissa roger hayward story. in any case mary and paul came up to us and told me they had been trying to “track me down” after Gerry at Catalina had asked them to get in touch with me about doing a story for the Catalina “hall of fame”. you have to summarize your “trip” in 3 paragraphs and i cant even do one story in 3 paragraphs let alone 4 years of my life in 4 paragraphs so i kind of blew off the email from mary asking from my “story”.
mary was still happy to meet me and wanted to interview me sometime, i suggested “now” at a bar down the street so we headed out. after an hour+ and many free beers for all of us thanks to mary and dave and perhaps catalina i had spewed out the “condensed” story of palapa’s trip from CA to the Caribbean. mary had several pages of notes on the back of my haul-out rate sheets so we declared victory and headed home.
i offered them a ride back to their charter catamaran. alas we had a similar incident to the micha dingy “incident” when she stepped onto the tube of seth and jaimee’s dingy and catapulted everyone over board. in this case we only lost mary and dave and my interview and mary’s camera but the cause was the same. basically the charter dingies are big heave stable fiberglass bottom dingies. people get used to a level of stability and then when confronted with an identical LOOKING aluminum hull version that weighs half the amount bad things happen. mary and dave where great sports about the whole thing and even followed the recommendation to swim to shore rather than attempt to renter the dingy.
when we dropped them at their cat we where of course invited aboard by the captain aimee had befriended and got a few more free beers! its great to hang out with people other than povo cruisers from time to time but it all seems to even out
Cheers – Roger
You should write a boaters recipe book. Looks yummy.
What a small world, running into “the” Roger Hayward whom I had been trying to get a story from for some months. As Catalina’s ad agency, we had been assigned this project to induct Roger and his 44 Catalina deck salon into the Catalina Hall of Fame. I knew Roger was sailing somewhere on the planet, but who would have guessed that we’d run into him on our Caribbean charter to the Grenadines? All was going swimmingly until I fell out of his dinghy after the interview and took Dave with me, along with my camera and all of my notes. My balance aboard any kind of boat is always a little dicey, but especially challenging when one’s legs are accustomed to sitting under a desk 8 hours a day. Of course, the multitude of happy hour libations beforehand had absolutely nothing to do with the spill! Stay tuned for the story in Catalina’s Hall of Fame, and oh, by the way, I applaud you, Roger and Aimee for taking off and visiting the world under sail, rather than just talking about it. Yours is a rare and enviable life indeed. BTW, my notes and camera survived, thanks to Roger’s instructions on de-salinating and drying out a digital camera. Fair winds, friends…
One more thing, the island is spelled “Carriacou”. Sorry. It’s the copywriter coming out in me…