Back in Grenada
25 November 2015
We came back to Grenada on Nov 20th to do projects on our boat and get her back in the water, I was also here back in September for a week, at that time upgraded our chart plotter and installed Radar.
This time we replaced all of our lead acid house batteries with AGM sealed batteries and moved there location from under a bed to in the floor, the air conditioned is located under the bed and with the batteries there as well the a/c would get pick up fumes from the batteries and blow it around the room. we also added one more solar panel above the dingy davit's.
Grenada marine was supposed to wax the whole boat and remove some of the boot stripe decals so I could replace them despite them telling me no problem we will have it done it wasn't done, after complaining about it to the marina (several times) someone finally came over and buffed the sides and did a really poor job at it, so I will have to complete it myself. ( If I owned a marina, things would be different.)
Reassembling everything on the boat is a lot of work as we took the sails, the trampolines all the ropes and almost everything we could take off for summer storage, the tropical summer sun is really hard on everything.
Looking to get launched on Thursday Nov 26 (Thanksgiving in the U.S.) 2 days later than our original plan.
Other improvements we have made is we had the canvass shop here make us a dodger, however, despite my telling them to use Strato glass they used cheap roll vinyl not happy about that and am going to be talking to them about that tomorrow.
Also installed new feathering props which are props that the blades turn straight on when you are sailing so they don't spin creating drag and wearing stuff out.
Next week Doreen Anderson will be joining us and we will sail from Grenada to Carricau then to St.Martin which will be around a 50 hour sail, we will sail non stop and be taking 2 hour night shifts at the helm, our first overnight passage! Up until now we have island hopped so haven't had to sail at night.
After we got here we realized we didn't bring any of our cameras or our charge cord for our ipod, luckily Doreen will bring them for us and I can post pictures.
Curt