Christy and Perry Saving the World

It’s hot again, rains a fair bit. Our original intention was to take Milu over to the other side of Grenada, moor by Port Louis, then take the ladies to Dragon Bay for underwater sculpture snorkeling via sailboat. That plan died when we couldn’t get Milu’s engine to run. We’re also returning the car today…

Rains hard most of the morning, eventually turns into a pretty nice day. Small hurricane through the night, even the experienced sailors in the bay will comment about it later. Musta been over 50 kts with a ton of rain. I get up a few times making sure the boat is not dragging/moving and even…

Hot and sunny, rains a bit. Today is adventure day, we’re going to visit some waterfalls – well at least one, we’ll see how it goes. Christy and I like Mt. Carmel falls – it’s away from the main town, very scenic and a little bit of the road less travelled. Gotta walk in though.…

We’re at LPB by 8:45 am (that’s late, I’ve been up for hours). I get a very nice, quite expensive Frapacino from the coffee shop and thankfully, we’ve already paid for the kid’s college education. Soon we’re loaded into our 6-seater mini SUV for our first day of adventure. As the driver, my only request…

Hot and sunny. I’ve arranged to meet Dwayne at 7 am at Clarke’s to give him our old dinghy. I go in alone and the dinghy seems to work perfectly so perhaps our troubles were due to gremlins. I dunno. I like Dwayne – I’m at the security gate by 6:45 am, he arrives with…

OK, will the dinghy motor start? Was it bad gas? Water in the line? I dunno, but she starts like a dream. I drop Christy off at Whisper Cove to do the laundry and take the starter battery into Horizon cuz we think it’s dead and the source of our Milu start problems. I go…

Nice, hot sunny day. I have two brainwaves in the night. One is that perhaps the dinghy is low on oil and that’s why it stopped and two, we can use the generator start battery to start the engine if we have to. Very early I climb into the dinghy and check the oil. It…

I guess it’s Microsoft that gives me another reminder of yesteryear. This time from 11 years ago. Hard to believe – those were fun days. I think this is from a tourney in Mississauga. I don’t sleep terribly well, it’s still quite warm and I can’t help thinking about the windlass. But that’s OK, we…

Lotsa stuff gotta come together today if we’re to leave this dock. Every day costs money and we’d much rather be out in the bay getting a breeze than roasting here at the dock. Still, we take advantage of the free shower and occasional frozen fruit smoothie. But first, a memory from 7 years ago…

We’ve been hoping to get off the dock since yesterday but it’s not looking good. The solar guys seem to be a long way away from finishing and Fabien and his helper can’t finish until they do. We’ve been without solar power for almost two days now and I’m happy with the fridge/freezer maintenance we’ve…