The big cleaning day
29 January 2010 | Jolly Harbour , Antigua
Georg
Today we moved EVERYTHING out of the boat and had them clean the inside ... One thing is for sure: we have way to much stuff .. The two girls (Jill and Betts) stood me up [again] = I really start to wonder if it's not me that's the problem , as during the past 10 days the workers also seemed to have been reluctant to show up at the 'job site'..... :-). Today was a very busy day , but the girls still managed to show up 1-1/2 Hours late... :-) Also last night when they 'finally' showed up, the at least they did bring me a drink and some snacks. - But Today Nada! Anyway they showed up just for the last pieces to be moved off the boat .. And before the cleaning ladies showed up I guess at end it all worked out :-). At 5PM we got the cushions back and started moving everything back onto the boat. We also managed to put the sails up ( with the help of the electrician ..) & I got the chance to go up the mast for the fist time to install the lazy jacks. The riggers also showed up and discovered a broken strain in one of the wires of the standing rigging = No sailing over the weekend.... Tomorrow we will move onto the boat and move into a slip in the marina.
Picture, L to R Bets, Bob Marley the painter (that's his name ..) an Jill
~Interesting take Georg~ I believe we missed moving ur tools which in ur excitement you bought maybe some doubles to what's already on the boat and maybe too much stuff? I believe you said no bedding was on the boat -now we have too much and some doubles. I believe we helped bring half the stuff off ur boat and cleaned/organized/helped you tons after you said to go take a sailing lesson and eat so we could break you and watch your stuff so you could go alone to eat/drink/be merry. Anyways he runs a tough 'ship' -no bathroom break all afternoon/evening! And not much water but very
hot,dirty,and lots of work to do....Oh,So much fun so far!! :-)
Oh, one more happy note~ heard stories of pirates boarding a boat with guns and stealing all money, electronics,etc between Grenada and Trinidad but they lived. We have planned to do that crossing 3 times....a bit scary to me .....