Yacht Aditi

And the view today?                 Much the same as yesterday, the day before and the week before that. Boats in our little bay rarely move. In fact we were shocked to see one up anchor and departing as the sun set yesterday but it went into the bay by De Big Fish, dropped off a tender, and came back to resume normality. Is this neighbourhood watch or are we in some kind of floating asylum? Without the odd boat movement creating a bit of interest we probably would be certifiable. Mast shots of

In a bid to watch the England – Ireland Six Nations rugby match from the comfort of the navigators chair rather than dinghy over to De Big Fish up went the floor and the re-routing of internet cables started. We got rid of our old VPN provider VPN Authority as performance was poor and we were unable to connect from anchor. We signed up with PureVPN and got connected immediately. But there dedicated TV streaming service wasn’t able to route cleanly enough from the BBC in London to us at anchor in Grenada on the end of some small WiFi

Bingo prizes included 1,000 ECD plus a sheep, a sheep, a pair of rabbits, 600 ECD, a fan, a couple of pairs of pants, free beers & pizza and a few other unsual items. The best outcome occurs when several cards win and the award of the prize is decided by a dance-off on stage. I need to get some action shots next week. There is a stadium bingo on 2nd March for 10,000 players with top prize of 30,000 ECD (7,500 GBP).

Accessed via a tunnel the Carenage is en route to Port Louis. The route through to the Carenage                                     Harry Ellis CEO Oracle’s former yacht (10th largest in the world) dwarfs a container ship.                             Signing the ledger to pay 40% duty on college text books!       Trawlers                   Carenage                    

We have been living at anchor since 9th January. We have, apart from food shopping and garbage disposal, been independent of the land for about 6 weeks. The biggest issue is always fresh water. We find we have to make water at every opportunity. Supposedly we are making water at 60 litres/hour but we never get capacity from the watermaker. This meant running the generator for sometimes up to 7 hours a day just to keep the tank on reserve. We are enormously pleased that on sunny blue sky days we can now run the watermaker off our two 190W

It’s all too familiar with another night at the excellent Choo’s with dinner at about 10 USD per head. Mrs Choo gave us a bag of sour oranges from the tree in her back garden. They taste like grapefruit and if you don’t enjoy that can be used for washing up dishes.                                       Choo’s is great and Mrs Choo is the best host around. But occasionally she takes a night off….so a local girl was on duty and we tried to order

As the sun started it’s descent so rolled in our new neighbours, the Stadt Amsterdam, with acres of sail still to furl away and lash to the spars. It dwarfs the rest of the boats in the bay.    

We receive very welcome responses to our posts and some highlights include: Your trip inspired us into having a little more adventure in our lives and so a quick rib round Britain seemed crazy enough.  We are having a custom ribeye 6m being built and so are off to Dartmouth on Friday to finalise the spec.  The plan is about 150mile per day, so 10 days in total…… ***************** Last blog & pics very interesting perspective on things, appreciate the dilemma and tough decisions ahead. But one thing is certain whatever your final decision is, you guys committed and achieved

Our friends on Calypso, David and Anne-Marie, roared overhead on the Virgin flight to the UK. It took the waiter at Tiki about 20 minutes to guess that there were two missing and they must have flown overhead! You guys missed a good night with Charles Ellis from Norway playing live on stage (he is on holiday…) with everything from Tina Turner to Phil Collins covers on his semi-acoustic. It’s going to be quiet without the Calypso Crew.

It’s a strange phenomena but rum has a habit of evaporating in these parts. Here, modelling on the foredeck at Prickly Bay anchorage, is Chairman’s from St Lucia (standard ARC issue, strange stuff, more like brandy so we were glad to see it gone) and Appleton’s (from Jamaica and tastes like a good white rum should). Top mixes in the Caribbean; coke, fruit juices, ginger ale. Yachts have been emptying out for the past week so the once crowded anchorage has now thinned to the point that there isn’t much between us and Panama.