We were all scheduled for lift and splash at 1500. I was sitting in the Internet room sending out an email to a fellow cruiser(How to get from Puteri Harbour, Malaysia to Singapore)when Tracy comes in the door. "Michael (travel lift operator)wants to splash is now!". It's now just after 1000. Apparently they had a boat get delayed and if he could do us now,mores the better. No problem. I bagged up every thing and we headed back to Zephyr. About five minutes later, along rolls Michael and straps were deployed, baby power put on the straps (let's them slide better against the hull)and electricity was disconnected and we were up in the air. Blue(one of our kitties) knew it was happening and she took off to hide. Tracy slapped on some more bottom paint and they are going to let us sit in the slings for an hour so the paint can dry. Then we will be off for getting the hull dunked. This time, they will splash us and then walk us out of the slings and off we go.
It's now just 1120 and Michael is back. Tracy is at the store so once she's back, off we go. I'll update later on what happens. Let's hope better than last time.

We are now up in Grenada so let me tell you the rest of the story. It all went as planned with us being lifted and driven to the slot where boats get launched and retrieved from. We were lowered and as I did he first time we did this, I went below and burped the packing gland on the prop and started the engine. Michael retracted the lift so it was totally out of our way. The document then walked us forward with our docklines, I put the nine in gear and out we went, nose and slick.
We motored over to a nearby bay and spent some time relaxing and getting ready to leave Trinidad on Thursday ad you are never supposed to start a voyage on Friday (old superstition). Thursday morning, we checked out with Immigration and Customs, went to the local grocery store and spent the last of our Trinidad dollars. Back to Zephyr for lunch and we were underway by 1400.
We made it through the channel heading north out of Trinidad with no wind. A squall had passed by earlier and ducked out all the wind. It took a while but it finally came back. The Genoa was rolled out and the main raised, the engine was shut off and we were really on our way. As the sun set, we reefer the main(second reef) as the winds were picking up and we had waves of two meters slamming into the sides. Wind were a steady 15 knots at about 45 to 60 degrees off the starboard side.
We finally made it in just as the sun was coming up at 0545 after a trip of 81.5 miles in just over 15 hours. All the boats that had gone to Trinidad to hide out were now back and Prickly Bay is now quite full of boats. We found a spot close to where we had last anchored and dropped the hook, pull back and set the anchor. Next, some quick cleaning up of the cockpit and we were off for the stern bunk and a nap. I'm sure the cats were doing the same thing(no cleaning though). A few hours later, the sky opened up and it poured. As we looked up through the main salon hatches, we saw a line coming off the mainsail that shouldn't be there. Looks like we have a sail to repair again. Rats!