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3 January 2026, Saturday, Toronto to Fort-de-France, Martinique
We’re up early and have coffee with Blair who generously drives us to the airport. We say our farewells to him and winter and eventually board our flight to Martinique. The plane takes off. It flies through the air. Some hours later it lands. We’ve arranged a Europcar rental and that works pretty smoothly at…
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2 Jan 2026, Friday, Huntsville to Toronto
Not many pictures from today, but documentable nonetheless. We start out early, I am up at 5:30 am, Christy a bit later but not much. Quite a bit to do before our cab arrives at 7:15 am. Last night I shut down the water system in the dark which wasn’t too bad, never done it…
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11 Dec 2025 to 2 Jan 2026 Ontario
Dec 11th through 15th We survive the night in our little hotel room after figuring out where the heat is. Cab back to the airport and use up our $15 coupons for a coffee and bagel. Flight to Toronto is uneventful, I take the Park ‘n’ Fly shuttle to the truck and … she starts…
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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…