Sapphire Sailing Adventures
| Vessel Name: | Sapphire |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Bristol 41 |
| Hailing Port: | Rochester, NY |
| Crew: | Moby & Caroline Burton |
17 April 2019 | Laying out 200' of chain on deck
Haul Out Day
"I always feel like The Ghost from Christmas Past when we do this exercise of hauling the heavy chain out on our side deck to rinse it and let it dry." On our primary alone, we have 200' of chain and 120' of rope. Then our secondary anchor has 200' of rope and 30' of chain.
16 April 2019 | Prickly Bay, Grenada
Getting Ready to be Hauled Out
We enjoyed a lovely leisurely couple of days sailing down to Grenada from Bequia, arriving on Palm Sunday.
16 April 2019 | Prickly Bay, Grenada
Grenada's Cruiser's Net
The cruiser’s net in Grenada is always very lively. On Safety and Security this morning we heard that a sailboat coming up from Trinidad had a boatful of eight ‘Venezuelan looking’ men trying to overtake them. The sailboat was able to get away,. but the hull is riddled with bullet holes. They [...]
13 April 2019 | Tyrell Bay, Carriacou
New Way to Clear into Customs
How do you clear in to Customs, when you arrive at a port and don’t feel like blowing up your dinghy?
12 April 2019 | Admiralty Bay, teaching William about reading music
Teaching William some Notes
I realized that if I set up my piano early in the morning, then I can play before there is too much sun in the cockpit.
11 April 2019 | Admiralty Bay, Bequia
Paddling around Bequia
As my buddy Joan Dwyer would say, “the goal in paddle boarding is to avoid looking like a little old lady pushing a Wegman’s cart.” Actually, I’ll be doing that soon enough as we are heading home in a week.
Keeping up with the Brightwork
"I do the varnish work whenever I find the time," I told Winfield, quite proud of my handiwork.
"Well, Missy," Winfield chuckling, " Looks like you need to find more time!"
That was 2011 when we first started coming to Bequia. Now, each year Winfield offers his professional services to scrape, sand and varnish our teak toerail. We pick up varnish and other supplies for him at half price in St Maarten and to pay us back for the supplies, Winfield takes care of our brightwork. Moby and I will sand and varnish the coaming (pronounced koe-ming) around the cockpit, but we leave the toerail and sometimes the handrails to Winfield's meticulous touch. In between the frequent quick rain showers, Winfield will spend the day sanding the toerail, put a coat of varnish on it, let that coat dry overnight and be back the next morning to sand before apply coat #2. By building up to six coats of varnish, we are fairly protected from the harsh UV rays over the course of the summer.
We returned from a hike this morning to find that he had re-sanded the cockpit coming for us. Guess our preparation wasn't up to his standards. So now I suppose that means he owns the toerail, handrails AND the coaming. Thanks to Winfield, we keep our Bristol in Bristol condition.
