almost underway
13 February 2007 | Trinidad
Judy
We're hoping to head west tomorrow toward Los Testigos islands off of Venezuela then on toward Margarita Island a few days later. I had a major disaster today, which thanks to the good heart of a fellow cruiser has been pretty much corrected, but not without leaving a few lingering hassles. My computer totally crashed first thing this morning, and would not open Windows no matter what we tried. A call for help on the local radio net brought Dalton of the yacht Quietly to my aid, and after several patient hours he was able to recover my data (which for awhile looked hopeless, much to my horror), back it up to an external hard drive, install a new operating system, and put it all back together, so I am once again on-line. There are some changes in the system which hopefully will keep my computer happier, but which mean a few hiccups in my ability to do what I used to do with the computer and a few things I'll need to learn. Not exactly a hassle I needed as we're preparing to leave, but in the end hopefully a well-appreciated improvement to my computer. Because of all this, I probably will not be able to do daily updates by email through the Singlesideband radio for awhile, but will only be able to add posts when I have internet access on the larger islands.
Hopefully, though, we'll be able to send frequent position updates to Yotreps (see post below entitled "To see where we are") so you can follow our trail.