Ship's Blog

Today I’m going to try and keep Nancy off her feet and complete some more little chores aboard. We may move across the harbor where we will have more protection from these strong south west winds. One of the French boats close to us dragged its anchor last night and became fouled in a permanent mooring. I fear we could be the target of one of the more careless cruisers. I don’t know why but so many seem to feel they need to be clustered close to each other. When we anchored here we picked a spot clear of everyone and now we have boats all around us regardless of the fact that there is lots of room in the anchorage.

5-22-14 Thursday has been one of relaxing aboard and getting a few chores done. Each day finds Nancy’s foot looking better and better. The swelling had really gone down by this afternoon due to the fact that she has kept it elevated all day. The winds have been up for the better part of the day around 15kts gusting to 20. It’s almost dinner time so I think I’ll wait until tomorrow morning to go ashore and try to get this posted along with some pictures.

We met a wonderful couple, Jean Paul & Cynthia, aboard a junk rigged Warram Tiki-46 catamaran who took a beautiful picture of us entering the harbor last Wednesday; we in turn took some of them leaving last Tuesday for the Azores. Smooth sailing Apatiki!

They caught us entering port

We caught them leaving

5-21-14 Wednesday we went to the doctor in Hamilton and he said everything was looking good but he wanted to see Nancy in a week to make sure everything was mending nicely. We were hoping to get away this weekend but will wait until after next Wednesday. After leaving the hospital we took a bus tour to the west end of the island out to the Dockyard. Had an enjoyable lunch at the Bistro and Pastry shop before catching the ferry back to Hamilton where we collected some repair parts from the local marine stores before doing a ferry excursion across the harbor to the old navy annex and Sommerset. Returning to Hamilton once again we caught the bus back to St Georges and found Avelinda lying quietly to her anchor. A full day of touring took its toll on Nancy as well as me so we were glad to get home and relax with a cocktail before dinner and bed.