Your Friendly and Houseboating Narrative Manager Samantha Wells
Ciao a tutti!
In a nutshell:
- lots of rain, squalls and rainbows.
- successful new freezer install, yay! It seems to be working, knock on wood. The previous freezer shed its mortal coils - and some thawed shrimp - some time ago. I may be repeating myself but fridge and freezer both win the Academy Award for fussiest pieces of equipment on Boundless. Mention them to the Cap'n and his face will turn into one of those demon masks from the Kabuki theatre.
- monitoring weather systems that eventually develop into hurricanes - or hopefully not. Gonzalo blew over us right on my birthday (I've always wanted a hurricane for my birthday, yay) but luckily it was a non-event, more like a giant-sized Sneezy from Snowhite blowing its nose on your head (yuk!) and generating a bunch of wind and rain. No harm to people, boats, land, etc. although obviously everybody prepped the boat for the worst. We had double anchors out - which was an opportunity to take the second anchor out one of the mast locker and re-organize such useful space - taking down the awnings, tying up the main, etc. The Cap'n even helped a tragically undersized - as far as anchor size and scope go - Catalina monohull upwind of us to re-anchor. He put the Catalina anchor chain into our dinghy, dropped it at a safer distance and even towed the boat!
- receiving a largish shipment in Grenada of various needed items from the US. Let's just say Homer's Odyssey pales in comparison.
- working on creative stuff:
- I know, I know... you want to see more of the grit of boat living, the gear, the sweat, the hard work, the drama, the sail hoisting, the " YOU GOTTA WATCH THIS! 10 KN WIND AND WE ARE DRAGGING!" of all those sailing YouTube vids... sorry. You get Schubert instead.😊
Thank you for all your comments to the last post (we cannot reply to them from this interface, bear with us), it was like having a little online party with all of you! I will post some pictures in the next days. Please be safe...