Busman's Holiday
25 January 2012 | Woburn, Grenada
Jules
Just a brief update as we're just so busy and about to leave the boat for a few days.
Over the last couple of weeks we've finished painting the outside from the waterline to the rub-rail, and the crane, and the wheelhouse and saloon roofs. We've had various generator and fuel pump issues, some of which are resolved and some of which aren't quite.
The weekend before last we had an emergency call from Tanya whose battery bank melted and she couldn't start her main engine. It was decided, as James is more than capable of looking after the boat, that instead of taking the Buzzard we'd go on the 8 am Sunday fast-cat ferry up to Carriacou and spend the day working for her and come back late that afternoon.
We got there fine, well except for the weather being a bit rough and the vomit comet living up to its name. Mike spent six hours re-wiring and sorting our the problem but wasn't quite finished by the time the ferry left so we stayed over with the intention of getting the 6.30 am ferry Monday. We were up and organised by 6 and just about to go to the dock when the ferry left. So ... another day working on Tanya's boat, for which she sure wasn't complaining.
We eventually got back Monday around 7 pm, tired and dragged out, definitely a busman's holiday that one.
Last weekend we spent a night at Pat's house which was really good. And Mike gave her a massage to try and alleviate some of her mobility problems which have been bugging her since she had surgery a couple of years ago. He's getting quite a reputation for his 'magic fingers'; even Jeff's been over for a session to get his back sorted out.
I've been working away on the new blog site but got a bit side-tracked when I inadvertently opened a spam email which then went through our address book and then locked us out of our hotmail account for a few days. (Many apologies for anyone reading this who got caught with that one ... the moral is NEVER, EVER click on a link, from anyone, that says 'Click here to see ...”.)
We've been waiting for some fuel for the last few weeks and more than twice have been all set to leave before the plans changed, yet again. In fact we were supposed to be leaving yesterday but aren't.
Instead we've going to take our friends Mike and Audrey up on their offer of a trip up to Bequia in their 60ft sailboat to go to the Blues Festival. We're really looking forward to it, and to seeing friends we haven't seen for quite some time. It'll be strange being there without the Buzzard though ... a real mini holiday, can't wait!
Love to all ...