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10 Dec 2025, Tuesday, Etang z’Abricot Marina, Martinique to Montreal, Canada
This day was supposed to get us to Toronto by about midnight, but we won’t get that far which is why the post stops at Montreal. More haul out jobs this morning, we are down to mostly cleaning stuff now. I swab the decks, amazing how dirty they are. Christy clears the fridges, and together…
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9 Dec 2025, Tuesday, Etang z’Abricot Marina, Martinique
We’re poking away at close up jobs through these days. This morning Christy will go to one of the laundromats we saw on our walk on Sunday while I walk up to what looks like a full-service plumbing shop at the top of the hill, maybe a 20 minute walk. The laundromats turn out to…
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8 Dec 2025, Monday, Etang z’Abricot Marina, Martinique
Up early, I go to the end of the pier and do a workout on the floating, rocking megapiers. Just makes the core workout a bit harder. Today is unusually rainy, most we’ve ever seen in the Caribbean. Every half hour or so it pours hard and is usually overcast. Good day to do work…
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7 Dec 2025, Sunday, Anse Mitan to Etang z’Abricot Marina, Martinique
Wow, what a morning. We knew there was going to be some challenges but this day threw everything at us and tested us both. I would say that throughout the day, despite some very stressful moments we never conflicted with each other but just bore down and got through some very tough moments. The first…
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6 Dec 2025, Saturday, Anse Mitan, Martinique
Up early as usual, even Christy getting up in the sixes these days. Despite a pretty windy anchorage, it is not too rolly or uncomfortable for sleeping. To say there is a refreshing breeze is a bit of an understatement but we reflect it is no worse than Woburn Bay and probably better than there…
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5 Dec 2025, Friday, Anse d’Arlet to Anse Mitan, Martinique
We’re up and going pretty early. I make some water first and put the new lock washer (en francais=rondelle grower) on the alternator, hope that will stop it from vibrating loose. I bought two lock washers but the one side already had one, though it is pretty flat. Last night in the calm of the…
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4 Dec 2025, Thursday, Anse d’Arlet, Martinique
Up early, a little disgruntled, didn’t sleep well, don’t like our anchorage, buncha sh*t not working. I poke away at a few things and we wile away the morning, not doing too much computer work as the cell service sucks in this bay. We talked about walking around the headland to Petit Anse but it’s…
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3 Dec 2025, Wednesday, Ste. Anne to Anse d’Arlet, Martinique
Overcast but generally calm day. We do the usual morning chores and I try again to nail down the source of our water issues by soaking up all the water in the bilge to see where it is coming from. A bit later than we wanted but not bad, around 1 pm, we depart for…
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2 Dec 2025, Tuesday, Ste. Anne, Martinique
I’m frustrated by our water issues but will have to track that down later. Today we are going into Le Marin. We decide to dinghy in rather than move Milu. It’s a long dinghy ride but conditions are calm and by the time we packed up and moved Milu we wouldn’t have saved any time.…
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1 Dec 2025, Monday, Rodney Bay, St. Lucia to Ste. Anne, Martinique
We’re up pretty early, dinghy into the marina where I go to customs while Christy gets us coffee around 8:30 am. In and out of C&I pretty quickly and driving away from Rodney Bay by about 9:30 am. The wind is a bit weird around Pigeon Island but soon enough we have a lovely close…