Month: March 2014

We have spent a week living with almost no water. We can keep the needle off the bottom by making water for 4 to 5 hours a day. Normally that would be 300L a day in which case we could be living as normal. Our Ecosistems 60 watermaker started to decline in performance now making 20L per hour rather than 60L. We can’t figure out the problem but it could be the pump head. The system cannot reach an operating pressure. Factory support on Ecosistems is best though of as nil so you have to use their network of support

On the Maurice Bishop Highway is CK Cash & Carry. It sells at retail prices but you can get some great quantities and additional choices to downtown. No fruit and veg though.                                                                     And next door is a Chinese Restaurant which serves dishes that have an acceptable level of chilli in them and you can have dinner for about $7 USD a head.        

Yacht Serena is a 32ft Malo 50 that was unfortunately abandoned during a storm off Portugal in July 2013 in 20m waves. It turned up in Prickly Bay about two weeks ago and is now for sale. Quite a journey for an unmanned craft.

We had just about got ourselves ready to accept that we had to sail to Trinidad to get our headsail furling unit fixed. And we had just about worked up the enthusiasm to push off toward Venezuela (San Rocas), the ABC islands and onto San Blas. But then we had a discussion with Technick regarding the repairs to the furling gear and he was of the immediate opinion that we have to go to St Martin. So we are back to Plan A for the next couple of months.

Our mainsail hydraulic furling motor was tracked well in transit until it got into the Caribbean. It was scanned out of Barbuda but had not been scanned in on arrival; the first break in the chain. At least we know it left the Barbuda area about a week ago but has since then vanished. We have been here for just long enough not to be surprised. The probability of anyone following some kind of process on these islands is very low. The next question is can anyone be bothered to find unrecorded shipments? And a number of college books made

We have a new neighbour, a thatched cat, which has just turned up. What it’s for we have yet to find out…but several days later and rumour has it that it was once a bar and that it’s near future lay at the bottom of the sea somewhere.

We have been able to upload some footage from the Grenada festival of workboat racing.

The movie in which one happy cruiser wins a goat!  

And you know the rest…..meanwhile we caught the doughnut making one of it’s occasional trips round the anchorage and it’s fun seeing people having a good time.                   Paul from yacht Talulah Ruby III dropped by yesterday. Paul & Andi are on their second trip round the world and invited us over to their boat. We had lot’s to discuss. After sundown they introduced us to a new restaurant down the road from Choo’s with great food and fantastic live music on a Saturday. The guy on the acoustic guitar, originally from