Catching Up In St. Maarten
13 December 2015 | Simpson Bay Marina
Kurt Flock / Sunny Skies & Fair Winds
For some odd reason, I stopped blogging. Perhaps too busy. Perhaps too distracted. I don't know. But Myananda has long since left South Amboy, New Jersey. Many, many miles have passed under her hull since then. I'll do some catch up and back filling as time permits, but for now, I want simply to re-establish this log, so at present, I'm aboard with Kate and Sophie, and we are in slip C-16 at the Simpson Bay Marina in Simpson Bay Lagoon on St. Maarten. Kate's been here a week now. I've been here three. I flew down in advance to splash Myananda after she spent this past hurricane season on the hard in Jolly Harbour, Antigua. Myananda is in great shape. We replaced all of the standing rigging earlier this year at FKG in Simpson Bay. That was many, many boat units, and we may have done so a bit early, but we had an issue with the center vertical plate on the bow furling/anchor assembly separating at the main weld joint, so we had no choice but to bite the bullet and dismantle the rigging to fix that. We opted to go ahead and replace the rigging which we just had inspected, and which was in good to serviceable condition. At any rate, here we are now, in good sailing shape, and with this test post, I will begin our blog anew!