Morning after the Wind Storm
21 March 2008
I woke around 8 Friday morning, Jim was still slightly sleeping on the back cushion, Micah was awake, he and Jenaya slept through the whole thing, Dad was up and so was Bridget. All of us, except the younger two, were still extremely sleepy, and had no energy to speak of. We radioed Giovanni and let him know that under those circumstances we decided to move the boat into the estuary to do the work on the sandbar, since there's no telling when that could happen again and if we were on the sandbar and nearing the tide coming in or going out, the bumping of the waves on the sandbar during a storm like that could be detrimental to our hull. So he arranged for his guy, Gervin,(pronounced Harveen), to come to our boat and guide us through the estero right around noon. We originally were going to do the work right away that evening as the tide went out, but under the circumstances, and with it being Good Friday, Jim and I talked and agreed it just wasn't going to happen today. We can get some other work done too, now that the bow roller has been damaged, we can't go out to sea with it the way it is, but there's no way we're going to get it taken care of until Monday with the Holiday weekend, the stores just won't be open until then. So since we'll be here until then we can finish the seats, & gunnels for the dinghy, get the starboard cockpit floor taken out and replaced, as well as the original reason to beach her, to clean out and repair the port daggerboard case. Freddy who is a carpenter that Giovanni knows here in Tamarindo village came over to Sunshine once we had her anchored in the estero and Jim asked him to do the cockpit floor job. We got a good nights sleep Friday night, since we were to be up and moving onto the sandbar at 5 a.m