Monday, April 19. 2010
First day of charter again and over to Salt Island
Deja vu...I am sure I was just blogging....Back to the last morning with the Cape Cod Pirates. These guys were organized! Up at 6 AM and packed before we even sailed back to Tortola. Smitty is hard at work guarding the luggage from pirates here!
Got back to dock and found out that the marina is putting in finger piers so they can accommodate cats. Really too rolly for anything other then cats in this marina anyways....
The final breakfast, but I think they finally got sick of me taking pictures and decided they would not even look at me! Can't blame them there....
The guests say that every time they come on the boat, the week goes faster then it did the time before. They thought they blinked and turned around and all of a sudden it was gone!
By the time we waved good bye to the guests, Richard and Lisa snuck on somehow and then it was a busy day. Of course we were all out of routine and not sure what to do with ourselves, so Bazza and I finally got out the way and went to bed to watch Amazing Race for awhile. That was a nice thought but the big compressor for filling tanks on the back of the boat went kaput and no matter how many times they hit it with a mallet it would not start. Not totally a surprise, we knew after 12 years of loyal service (and not ever once having to fill tanks ashore!) it was close to the end of its life...That meant that Baz and Rich spent a couple hours taking it out and replacing it with a smaller one that we had in the storage locker (smart aren't we??)
Then Rich and Lisa did not make it town to do the grocery shopping or pick up the laundry or anything so it was all put over to be done in the morning....
This very excited little girl from Vancouver BC has been on the boat 8 weeks now! Even though she may be a guest, she is really not a guest any longer, but has become such a good friend of all ours too. I am not sure that i have ever seen someone so excited, considering she just spent two weeks on here in February..
Dinner was blue drink and wings and french fries, served gourmet style! THe wings were hot hot hot! I had fries and used the hot wings as an excuse to drink a bit more blue drink, although smart enough to stop before getting too carried away! We have a ton of work to do in the morning.
Notice "Mr. I have never met a camera I did not like is back again?"
We are measuring Margot as we speak for her crew uniform, but she knows without being told that when she stays on the boat before charters she has to help with laundry! Good thing she likes laundry!!
Wasn't too much longer and then our California gals showed up this morning...Bazza and I had had a quick couple hours in time hitting the accountant, department stores, bank (thank god only the ATM machine!), the bakery, NAPA, the 2 liquor wholesalers, Bobby's, Riteway and the french deli! The car was absolutely stuffed... THEN It all had to be carted down the dock... (RIch and Conner were off with one of the other boats in our "fleet" doing some stuff)
They are looking a little giddy here as they just came on the red eye over night from LAX....
Our tiny little group of only 5 guests (Richards parents had had a cabin on board, but they never made it out of the UK with the air space being closed...and that was really too bad as they would have gotten to see what Rich and Lisa did here! First time!! and Rich's mom....they do do a spectacular job too!) is looking happy. We gave them painkillers...
We think it is going to be a fun week! Seems like a small group as with both Rich and Lisa and Kerry and Bazza on board, we needed an extra cabin!
Chris's husband, Tom is now the only MALE guest this week. Poor man, whatever will he do???? He looks miserable already!
Lisa, of course, still cooked as if it was a dozen guests on board!
I loved it though, as I did not cook it! I am quite happy with my role of bottle washer this week....
They listened in rapture intently to all the rules on the boat....
This afternoons crew was Kerry, Bazza and Lisa. An unusual combination on the boat! Which meant that Bazza got to work the sails all by himself. We had to go down to Roadtown to get diesel. Unfortunately, our luck, but the boat that was on dock when we arrived TOOK all the diesel in the pumps!!!!!
We made our way over to Salt Island, and you may think that Pam is on the back sun tanning, but you would be incorrect! It was a tad wiggly and confused on the way over there!!!
There are pros and cons on whether we have the big table in the cockpit or the coffee table. Margot's definite preference is to have the coffee table up, and as soon as the boys got back Lisa had enough of her whining about it and it was changed around...
Lisa made a wonderful parmesan encrusted mahi mahi, fried and then served with squash, and homemade tartar sauce. A girl after my own heart! Fish that is breaded and fried one way or another! It was good too!
5 guests and 5 crew with all repeat guests, also means that we get to eat at the table with the guests (don't worry, they really want us too!) We have warned our cabin boy Conner, that just because there is so many crew on board, DOES NOT mean he gets to slack off and do less! Low man on the totem pole and all...It is the 4 of us who get to do less and enjoy our guests more!
My gosh I am caught up...time to go to sleep!
Got back to dock and found out that the marina is putting in finger piers so they can accommodate cats. Really too rolly for anything other then cats in this marina anyways....
The final breakfast, but I think they finally got sick of me taking pictures and decided they would not even look at me! Can't blame them there....
The guests say that every time they come on the boat, the week goes faster then it did the time before. They thought they blinked and turned around and all of a sudden it was gone!
By the time we waved good bye to the guests, Richard and Lisa snuck on somehow and then it was a busy day. Of course we were all out of routine and not sure what to do with ourselves, so Bazza and I finally got out the way and went to bed to watch Amazing Race for awhile. That was a nice thought but the big compressor for filling tanks on the back of the boat went kaput and no matter how many times they hit it with a mallet it would not start. Not totally a surprise, we knew after 12 years of loyal service (and not ever once having to fill tanks ashore!) it was close to the end of its life...That meant that Baz and Rich spent a couple hours taking it out and replacing it with a smaller one that we had in the storage locker (smart aren't we??)
Then Rich and Lisa did not make it town to do the grocery shopping or pick up the laundry or anything so it was all put over to be done in the morning....
This very excited little girl from Vancouver BC has been on the boat 8 weeks now! Even though she may be a guest, she is really not a guest any longer, but has become such a good friend of all ours too. I am not sure that i have ever seen someone so excited, considering she just spent two weeks on here in February..
Dinner was blue drink and wings and french fries, served gourmet style! THe wings were hot hot hot! I had fries and used the hot wings as an excuse to drink a bit more blue drink, although smart enough to stop before getting too carried away! We have a ton of work to do in the morning.
Notice "Mr. I have never met a camera I did not like is back again?"
We are measuring Margot as we speak for her crew uniform, but she knows without being told that when she stays on the boat before charters she has to help with laundry! Good thing she likes laundry!!
Wasn't too much longer and then our California gals showed up this morning...Bazza and I had had a quick couple hours in time hitting the accountant, department stores, bank (thank god only the ATM machine!), the bakery, NAPA, the 2 liquor wholesalers, Bobby's, Riteway and the french deli! The car was absolutely stuffed... THEN It all had to be carted down the dock... (RIch and Conner were off with one of the other boats in our "fleet" doing some stuff)
They are looking a little giddy here as they just came on the red eye over night from LAX....
Our tiny little group of only 5 guests (Richards parents had had a cabin on board, but they never made it out of the UK with the air space being closed...and that was really too bad as they would have gotten to see what Rich and Lisa did here! First time!! and Rich's mom....they do do a spectacular job too!) is looking happy. We gave them painkillers...
We think it is going to be a fun week! Seems like a small group as with both Rich and Lisa and Kerry and Bazza on board, we needed an extra cabin!
Chris's husband, Tom is now the only MALE guest this week. Poor man, whatever will he do???? He looks miserable already!
Lisa, of course, still cooked as if it was a dozen guests on board!
I loved it though, as I did not cook it! I am quite happy with my role of bottle washer this week....
They listened in rapture intently to all the rules on the boat....
This afternoons crew was Kerry, Bazza and Lisa. An unusual combination on the boat! Which meant that Bazza got to work the sails all by himself. We had to go down to Roadtown to get diesel. Unfortunately, our luck, but the boat that was on dock when we arrived TOOK all the diesel in the pumps!!!!!
We made our way over to Salt Island, and you may think that Pam is on the back sun tanning, but you would be incorrect! It was a tad wiggly and confused on the way over there!!!
There are pros and cons on whether we have the big table in the cockpit or the coffee table. Margot's definite preference is to have the coffee table up, and as soon as the boys got back Lisa had enough of her whining about it and it was changed around...
Lisa made a wonderful parmesan encrusted mahi mahi, fried and then served with squash, and homemade tartar sauce. A girl after my own heart! Fish that is breaded and fried one way or another! It was good too!
5 guests and 5 crew with all repeat guests, also means that we get to eat at the table with the guests (don't worry, they really want us too!) We have warned our cabin boy Conner, that just because there is so many crew on board, DOES NOT mean he gets to slack off and do less! Low man on the totem pole and all...It is the 4 of us who get to do less and enjoy our guests more!
My gosh I am caught up...time to go to sleep!
So slow!
Cross posted this on both my blogs so people would know we were still alive and kicking. I have an entry or two to put up on here, I just don't seem to have very much time lately. It will get better though!!!
Although it has only been a couple days, they have just been a VERY BUSY couple days. In the entire scheme of things, we sadly dropped off our Cape Cod Pirates and they left to plunder the Westin on St John for a couple days and we have turned the boat around, gotten Richard and Lisa home, and are now BACK out on charter again....
But, we can't go there yet...I have to finish up the last charter week first. Last time I left you we were blowing in the breeze at Mosquito Island, and we had some great colors on the sunset that night...
Semi smiley faces at dinner that night, although mostly they were just thinking "god I wish she would put away the darn camera!)
With all the wind out there we had ANOTHER spinnaker sail the next morning down to Beef Bluff...Patty assumed her usual position while sailing this week....
Conner tied us up to shore and even though the kid grew up on a boat, apparently bow lines were not his specialty as we had quite the time when the stern line parted getting the boat backed up to the right place again in all the wind...Smitty just waited patiently for lines to come his way...
Somehow in the midst of all this chaos the dough for lunch got away from me and I had mountains...Reminded me of when we overfill the washing machine!
I was attempting to do hot dog and hamburger buns, (I know you can't tell but the tray on the left was supposed to be hot dog buns!) It did not work so well and I should just stick to hamburger buns!
For a change we were having hot dogs along with the hamburgers and by gosh they were good too!
Lunch eventually looked like this...and i just put a plate aside and decided to jump in the water for half an hour while everyone was eating...
This is me, happy girl, ready to jump in for an exploration!
Just a few random shots, nothing too exciting although the turtle and flamingo tongue were nice. Fairly cloudy and I did not stay in too long...we had other places to get too as they had decided it was definitely a two snorkel day!
Which then took us on our way over to the wreck of the Rhone at Salt Island (incidentally where we are heading at the moment and I sitting jiggling around way too much in my little cabin getting this blog done....)
No one else there and the guests were kind of ho hum about the entire wreck, as apparently they had snorkeled it a few years ago and they were not too excited by it! After this snorkel they told me though that they don't know where I took them too last time but it certainly was not the Rhone as it looked NOTHING like this and this was spectacular. Just goes to show that some days you can show your guests anything and they will believe it!
Random fish just kept on swimming in front of my camera lens to get there picture taken, so I took them. I get to show you more fish portraits here...
THen it was off to Cooper Island to find another very windy anchorage by Cistern Point for our last night. I also thought we were going to blow away that evening as we had a couple LARGE gusts!
The last day is always very busy trying to fit everything in that the guests wanted to get done, and then also trying to do a few more special things for them....This is the last dinner picture of the week! I promise!!!
I had spent quite a bit of time in the afternoon editing Carols videos she took during the week with her new flip cam (which I LOVED and will be showing up in my mail box soon!) It turned into a hilarious movie, that we watched after dinner. About 35 minutes long and perfect music all the way through it that had been playing while she was filming.... I would love to post it, and I may, although it is going to have to wait until we get a faster connection then what we normally have here in the BVI!
Although it has only been a couple days, they have just been a VERY BUSY couple days. In the entire scheme of things, we sadly dropped off our Cape Cod Pirates and they left to plunder the Westin on St John for a couple days and we have turned the boat around, gotten Richard and Lisa home, and are now BACK out on charter again....
But, we can't go there yet...I have to finish up the last charter week first. Last time I left you we were blowing in the breeze at Mosquito Island, and we had some great colors on the sunset that night...
Semi smiley faces at dinner that night, although mostly they were just thinking "god I wish she would put away the darn camera!)
With all the wind out there we had ANOTHER spinnaker sail the next morning down to Beef Bluff...Patty assumed her usual position while sailing this week....
Conner tied us up to shore and even though the kid grew up on a boat, apparently bow lines were not his specialty as we had quite the time when the stern line parted getting the boat backed up to the right place again in all the wind...Smitty just waited patiently for lines to come his way...
Somehow in the midst of all this chaos the dough for lunch got away from me and I had mountains...Reminded me of when we overfill the washing machine!
I was attempting to do hot dog and hamburger buns, (I know you can't tell but the tray on the left was supposed to be hot dog buns!) It did not work so well and I should just stick to hamburger buns!
For a change we were having hot dogs along with the hamburgers and by gosh they were good too!
Lunch eventually looked like this...and i just put a plate aside and decided to jump in the water for half an hour while everyone was eating...
This is me, happy girl, ready to jump in for an exploration!
Just a few random shots, nothing too exciting although the turtle and flamingo tongue were nice. Fairly cloudy and I did not stay in too long...we had other places to get too as they had decided it was definitely a two snorkel day!
Which then took us on our way over to the wreck of the Rhone at Salt Island (incidentally where we are heading at the moment and I sitting jiggling around way too much in my little cabin getting this blog done....)
No one else there and the guests were kind of ho hum about the entire wreck, as apparently they had snorkeled it a few years ago and they were not too excited by it! After this snorkel they told me though that they don't know where I took them too last time but it certainly was not the Rhone as it looked NOTHING like this and this was spectacular. Just goes to show that some days you can show your guests anything and they will believe it!
Random fish just kept on swimming in front of my camera lens to get there picture taken, so I took them. I get to show you more fish portraits here...
THen it was off to Cooper Island to find another very windy anchorage by Cistern Point for our last night. I also thought we were going to blow away that evening as we had a couple LARGE gusts!
The last day is always very busy trying to fit everything in that the guests wanted to get done, and then also trying to do a few more special things for them....This is the last dinner picture of the week! I promise!!!
I had spent quite a bit of time in the afternoon editing Carols videos she took during the week with her new flip cam (which I LOVED and will be showing up in my mail box soon!) It turned into a hilarious movie, that we watched after dinner. About 35 minutes long and perfect music all the way through it that had been playing while she was filming.... I would love to post it, and I may, although it is going to have to wait until we get a faster connection then what we normally have here in the BVI!
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