Preparation for our final night sail in 2008!!!
23 December 2008 | Simpsons Bay Marina, Sint Maarten, NV
John MacKenzie
We are completing the final provisioning while in the duty free paradise of Sint Maarten, the Dutch side offering the most amazing shopping we have seen in some time. Gotta love Cost-U-Less - thanks to Dave and Michelle for turning us on to this store - the Caribbean's version of a COSTCO!
Now Bruce "Skip" Walker and Captain John are sitting in Jimbo's Restaurant (great free wifi!) waiting for the girls and kids to return from a final shopping excursion to Phillipsburg - take it easy on the credit cards girls!
We were also delighted to see our good friend and North Atlnatic ARC crew member Steve Southwood aboard his Lagoon 420 this morning. Steve and Helen moved aboard Dignity in November and are now waiting for their kids (youngest "child" is 21 yrs!) to join them for the holidays before they begin the journey south to Antigua and onto the Tobago Cays and Grenada where we hope to meet them again - safe sailing.
Check out our catch on the way to Antigua - please don't curse us while our friends and family back home are shovelling snow!