bvi captains log blog

Yes, all the projects are coming together with breakneck speed now that we just have a day or two left....
The table is resined and looking good...



Dad has painted all the gates and Bazza has put all the pickets back on...



The never ending ROV project is about completed....

All its parts are together...

We looked like chinese coolies carrying it out to the driveway. I think I was just posing for the picture and letting them do the work! In my normal best going out wear of pajamas...

Now, the fun and games comes where EVERYTHING has to fit in the shipping crate. It is like a jigsaw puzzle.

And this is my favorite view. The lid is on, it looks neat and tidy and the last screw is going in. It may show up in Tortola in a few months, we have to get it picked up and taken over to Vancouver by delivery truck. Then it goes on a train down to the east coast. Then it goes by boat down to Tropical in Miami, it is unloaded and repacked into a container for Tortola. So, a few months may be optimistic! Not like we can do much any ways until after the upcoming charter season. Still amazes me how we spend so much time doing "projects" I have not even finished everything I wanted to do this summer with web sites yet and next Sunday at this time we will be on charter again.

For some odd reason my parents decided that I should play the accordion last night. Now, I have not played the accordion for about 38 years or so...It just tells you how much my parents made me practice when I was a child that i could still read the music! Had to puzzle it out a bit. It was kind of fun, although I do not remember my breasts getting caught in the bellows the last time I played it as it did last night!

My great aunt and uncle came down from Gabriola Island to spend the night and dinner. My mother made a really great Prime Rib Dinner to celebrate our last week here and we even ate in the dining room (no, I did not get out of my pajamas! That would have been pushing it)


And just in the interesting tidbits section, Government Information Services put this out....
"A meeting to discuss a proposed Road Town development will be Sept. 11. Water’s Edge at Wickham’s Cay II would be built at the current location of the Tortola Yacht Services boat yard, according to Government Information Services. It would include commercial offices; retail, luxury and middle-income residential facilities; and hotel space, encompassing a total area of 289,000 square feet. A 135,000-square-foot parking garage large enough to accommodate 400 vehicles also is proposed. The development is designed to "provide a mixed-use commercial community," according to GIS"

I shall have to remember to head to that and check out what is going on. I think we need public transportation more then we need a 400 car parking garage and high towers that will cut off the view of the ocean more.