Year: 2014

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

Most buses in the Caribbean have been like the one in the video and I aim to capture a few more examples to post here. No complaints, we like it although some of the drivers must be ex-F1 test pilots as they overtake on the outside of blind bends and hit max revs in each gear. As I boarded a bus yesterday to add to my new collection it turned out to be the first quiet ride we have ever had. From now on if I can’t hear a rapper from half a mile away I am not taking the

Following the calmest evening with the best sunset yet we lucked out at Bingo by one number. Yes we were an ’18’ short of a goat. The cruisers next to us had come over from Hog Island to celebrate a birthday and one of them, the guy in the beige shirt,  won a goat. He was elated and quick to make friends with his new farming asset back stage. Top prize tonight was 800 ECD, a goat and a pig but they had to be shared between two winners. It’s all back to normal this morning with the usual 20

Windsurfing went out with the Ark when Kite Surfing came in but oddly enough I found a youngster practicing the ancient craft and offered him some help to get through the waterstart barrier. I digress for moment; on the 7.30am cruisers radio net VHF Channel 66 there was an urgent call on Saturday because a young kite surfer and cruiser had broken his hip whilst surfing. He was anchored in a remote area off Frigate Island and his girlfriend and two dogs were left alone as he was flown to the hospital in Grenada. So cruisers on the net were