Author: Paul and Claire

To avoid the crush – just turn up! Twice we went to the supermarket in the mall and almost had it to ourselves.

A great day out zip lining through the rain forest. Of course it rained on our open top jeep. There are 12 zip lines at varying heights through the forest canopy and the tour ends with a trip to a local waterfall.      

Sorry for the lack of posts. We have needed a lot of downtime to recover from the crossing. For the first 3 nights we would wake up every 3 hours ready for our watch! We have been staying in Rodney Bay marina waiting for our tender to be repaired which our retractable bow thruster sliced a hole in. Without a tender we are unable to go to anchor or leave the island. Just before Christmas we sailed with Duplicat for the first time on a catamaran then anchored in Rodney Bay and swam. Christmas Eve saw a devastating storm which

It was a quiet night. The sea was calm and there was very little light. Dark but not a black night as it is sometimes. It started at 0030 hrs when suddenly the VHF crackled into life, A merchant vessel was calling for a named vessel which I thought to be unusual. There was no reply. About 20 minutes later the call went out into the night once again. No reply. This now had my full attention as any merchant vessel on a collision course would have resolved the issue by now so what was going on? Another 20 minutes

Not very well attended this year.

Our traveller is being filled in by a welder as it is 50% worn through by the mainsheet shackle. It was a two day job to remove and so far a 1 day job to fit. Sourcing an M12 countersunk bolt took a couple of days. And of course I borrowed an impact driver which had the only bit of it’s kind in Europe; a drag bar socket made for American jeeps. Then I find the poor guy who lent it to me is paid crew and he had to tell the owner…