Nancy took this picture while we were in the internet place yesterday. I said watch out they don't take you away! That would have been quite the picture of her yelling and kicking. Put it on the Blog!
Saint Lucia – Sint Maarten 23 rd – 26 th April 2015 3 days in St. Lucia and we worked very hard while there – the genoa halyard was very difficult to re-wind onto the drum, with all three of us putting our heads together, Adam and I dismantling the lower drum several times – all of us taking turns to read and attempt to understand why we kept getting it wrong. Now and again I think that I might be dyslexic, this was one of those times – no matter how many times we re-wound the furling line onto that drum it was backwards. Debra and I working on sewing the sun strip back on the genoa We got it on eventually, and furled and unfurled it while on our mooring and all seemed well – It wasn’t, it plagued us throughout the rest of the trip – we were constantly reefing and unreefing it – the unreefing was the problem and I broke another rule I usually adhere to – ‘if you have to use brute force to make something work, something’s obviously wrong an...
When we left Neah Bay and headed out in the big blue Tony said - "We'll be in San Francisco by Wednesday " - he meant next Wednesday. 3 Wednesdays later we arrived in San Francisco and tomorrow we will have been away 1 month. We came through the Golden Gate bridge at high tide as recommended and it was uneventful, but very exciting to be bringing our own boat into San Francisco. As we were going under the bridge we phoned Georgia (my daughter who lives in San Francisco) and announced our arrival very loudly in unison. We found Sausalito Yacht Club just exactly where it was supposed to be and pulled up to their transient dock to fill up with water. We stayed on one of their moorage buoys for the next 5 days and enjoyed their facilities - showers, bar and restaurant. The ferry terminal was right next to the yacht club, so we had easy access to downtown SF but we also had a very rolly moorage. I think I'm beginning to understand the meaning of the 'pace of the crui...
MoondancerX’s Big Adventure Resumed after a 3 year hiatus in St. Vincent. Since our arrival here in May 2012 many changes have taken place, the biggest of which of course is that Tony and I are no longer married. We’d been working for 3 years with Barefoot Offshore Sailing School as Sailing Instructors – separately and fairly constantly. Tony has gone to live in Nova Scotia with his new family and after 1 year on my own in St. Vincent it came time to move on. MoondancerX has sat so quietly on her mooring ball with very little input from me, other than my attempts to keep her brightwork looking half decent and some attention to her canvasses. So – preparation for my journey to the Bahamas, why here – I’ll get to that. The date I’m writing this is December 4 th 2015 The decision to move on was difficult to make – to start anew in a totally foreign (to me) country where until I made friends...
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