Today Tyrell finished hooking up our electrical wires that run up the mast to the boat. His worker must not have done a very good job yesterday because it took Tyrell a couple of hours to finish things off and when he was completed, he told me his was not going to bill for an hour of the time he spent. Fortunately, everything is working now.

Thus, we are now down to our last significant project, which is not really all that significant. However, it is something that I cannot do. For that project to be completed, we first need to have a new pinion gear be sent to the island so it can be installed. Once installed, the saildrive oil seal and then the pulley seal can be installed on our starboard engine. We are hoping that will be done by mid next week.

This evening, we got together with Wayne and Ally of S/V Blue Heeler, Brian and Emma of S/V Coruisk, and Jim, Kathy and Alex of SV Inishnee. Blue Heeler and Inishnee will be leaving for the Azores tomorrow morning, while Coruisk is waiting for Emma’s husband to come up from Grenada before the three of them start on their passage to the Azores. We have been bumping into Blue Heeler and Coruisk since our days in the Indian Ocean and the Java Sea. It will be great to see them again up in the Azores!

We first all got together at the Simpson Bay Yacht Club, a local hangout right next to the bridge that leads out to Simpson Bay. We met for happy hour where my gin and tonic was only $3. The picture that I posted to this blog is of our motley group.

After a few drinks and a couple of hours we next headed off to Little Jerusalem, a restaurant that Kathy highly recommended for their shawarmas. Since Mary Margaret and I love shawarmas, we seconded Kathy’s recommendation and off we all went.

The portions were large and the shawarmas were great, as was the company. As it got later and later it was time to call it a night. It was hard to say goodbye but we all knew that we would see each other in a few weeks up in Horta, the capital of the Azores.

Bon Voyage, guys! We hope you all have a great sail and we look forward to getting together again soon.