It was a bit crazy in the anchorage today so we're glad we stayed on board. With the forecast for the next week to be the winds continuing from the east to the northeast to the north, everyone seems to be headed here to hide out. Lots of folks that look like they came from the British Virgin Islands showed up all through the day trying to find a place to drop their anchor. Several dropped off our port side but decided it was just to close to us and another boat that's off our side. Up came their anchor and off they went looking for another place. One was a huge catamaran called "Big Dog" and he was quite large. They sped through the anchorage passing close to the other boats but finally found one of the few remaining places. Other boats came by our side and also gave up and moved off. We moved to the back of the boats several days ago so we would have more room to swing if the winds came from the north to the east and it's paid off. We have boats to the front of us and a boat(big sailboat) to our stern. Another to our port and another to our starboard, all just the perfect distance that won't allow other boats to drop anywhere near us or them so we make out just fine.
The winds are still coming through in bullets. Here one moment and then calm then back again in the mid 20s to 30 knot range repeatedly making Zephyr pull on her anchor line and snubbers. We're in 18 feet of water and I've got over 120 feet of chain out so we have close to a 6 to 1 ratio on our chain. With it being a sand/mud bottom and an 88 pound Rocna anchor at the end of our chain, so we aren't going any where(unless some idiot drops his anchor and chain right on top of ours and hooks it. We have our anchor drag alarm on with the GPS of where we are showing on our B & G chartplotter in the cockpit. We slowly swing on anchor making a big "C" on the electronic chart on the plotter. Not going forward and not going back. We're hooked into the bottom just fine. This front is due to be here for at least another 5-6 days so it's just going to get more crowded as more boats come here to hide out.

It's now late Sunday evening and the wind has finally slacked off for a while. The wind generator is barely moving on the stern but we know it will be back soon. It's been blowing for most of the day. More bullets coming and going all throughout the day. The day started with with three more cruising ships coning in to the harbor. From what we've read, they get about 90 a month here. If there are less than three, many of the shops don't even bother to open since they don't think there are enough people to warrant it. Go figure.

We spent some of the morning cleaning up around the boat and then doing a few odd tasks. One of the lines to our "lazy jacks" was frayed and needed replacement. Lazy Jacks are lines that attach to the boom as well as the mast that when they are raised by pulling down on the line attached to the mast makes a grid that will hold the mainsail when it's lowered or reefed. I joined the new line with the old line with a needle and thread and pulled on the old line and the new line went right up the mast an through the block and back down to the boom. I cut off the old line and attached the new to the "Lazy Jack"(of course whipping the ends of the line)
and the job was done.
When we had to remove the ceiling panel in Trinidad, we misplaced the hook thats screwed to the ceiling that holds the port light open. I finally found it and screwed it back up so the port light is now supported properly instead of with a broken coat hanger.
In the afternoon, we had a good game of Mexican Train where Tracy beat me bad!!!
This morning(Monday) instead of going in to see of the engine parts had arrived(it's Martin Luther Kings birthday), I went forward and saw that the anchor chain had become tangled with one of the rubber snubber lines. I grabbed our boat hook and tried to pull it off only managing to break the boat hook! In the end, I did get the chain untangled but now I'm in the process of cutting off the broken tubes and with a couple new pop rivets, putting it back together. A bit shorter but at least it will still work. Yesterday, when we were clearing off the forward port bunk, we found two new boat hooks the last owner had left on board. We knew they were there but now we may have to put them to use if the repaired on is too short. It's will still be about 10 feet long but that might be too short for what we need it for. It had been 14 feet long made of three sections, now two and ¼ sections. Oh well.
As we were about to have lunch, a chartered catamaran came into the anchorage trying to anchor close to us. There were just two people on board and the wife, or girlfriend, was having none of it. She just sat and watched as the man steered the boat in, ran forward and tried to drop the anchor, getting some chain out before the boat veered off to the side and swung around. This went on over and over till he finally gave us and moved to a different area of the anchorage(far from us) and did it all over again. Again, doing it all by himself made the job just about impossible in 20 knot winds. He tried a third and a fourth place before he finally got it down and hooked. I''m guessing that this trip is his idea of fun and not hers.
Tomorrow, off to the post office to see if the part has arrived.