Sunday, August 8. 2010
Promenade Cabin Only sailing in February
Sunday, July 4. 2010
A weekend in St Thomas....
In St Thomas, behind the auto place is a bar. The bar is called Big Cock Bar. I had never noticed it before! We all laughed.
Even though there was no cruise ships in port on Friday, traffic was still pretty backed up with road construction. I had lots of time to snap pictures of there goats eating!
I am not sure how it is possible that we had so many boxes and running around to do in St Thomas, after all, we are going back to the mainland in a couple weeks, but some things never change I guess!!
Kevin is getting over being sick, and looking healthier and perkier...
We went over to Hassle Island to do a bit of a swim in the afternoon...
They have the largest Angel Fish i have ever seen in this part of the world!
Saw lots of lobster as well!
Some interesting coral formations... (better then rock formations when you are diving!)
Some more Humongous Angel Fish...
This one thought he was hiding from me....
When I came up it was just about sunset....
This you cannot really tell from this picture, but you will when I post one of it cleaned up, but this is an approx 7 lb cannon ball!!! I picked it up and debated whether I would or could carry it back to the boat as I also had my camera, but i knew Bazza would like it, so I humped it back, using a ton of air....
Bazza saw a Lionfish today, in West Gregory Channel kind of by Crown Bay Marina. I am not sure who to report it to in the USVI, but apparently this Lionfish was a big one, about 12 inches across!
Even though there was no cruise ships in port on Friday, traffic was still pretty backed up with road construction. I had lots of time to snap pictures of there goats eating!
I am not sure how it is possible that we had so many boxes and running around to do in St Thomas, after all, we are going back to the mainland in a couple weeks, but some things never change I guess!!
Kevin is getting over being sick, and looking healthier and perkier...
We went over to Hassle Island to do a bit of a swim in the afternoon...
They have the largest Angel Fish i have ever seen in this part of the world!
Saw lots of lobster as well!
Some interesting coral formations... (better then rock formations when you are diving!)
Some more Humongous Angel Fish...
This one thought he was hiding from me....
When I came up it was just about sunset....
This you cannot really tell from this picture, but you will when I post one of it cleaned up, but this is an approx 7 lb cannon ball!!! I picked it up and debated whether I would or could carry it back to the boat as I also had my camera, but i knew Bazza would like it, so I humped it back, using a ton of air....
Bazza saw a Lionfish today, in West Gregory Channel kind of by Crown Bay Marina. I am not sure who to report it to in the USVI, but apparently this Lionfish was a big one, about 12 inches across!
Thursday, July 1. 2010
Pulling anchors out of the "muck"
So, when you pull anchors out of the muck that you have had down there for a year or two I wonder what it looks like? You have probably asked yourself that question repeatedly haven't you??
Well, I am here to show you.
Yes, it smells about as bad as it looks too. Since we are tying the boat up in PUerto Del Rey, Fajardo this summer for hurricane season while we go back to North America (by the way, 17 days until then....a countdown), by the time we returned at the end of October, we would not be able to find these anchors they would be too deep. Hence, we had to pull them up and put them in the storage locker. "we" is not quite true as my help was taking pictures of the performance only!
We are finally leaving dock today. The anchors are coming up, the water has been filled, the storage/work shop has been cleaned up, our power cord has been cut away from the power box, and soon we will run free!!
Bazza's boat, Buoy Boat, has already even been hauled and put into storage at Virgin Gorda Yacht Harbour, we will leave the Bingo Bus for another week or so before hauling it as well.
Off to St Thomas for the weekend, back up to Tortola on Monday for a ton of running around, pick up a few friends for a week next Sunday, and then time to go back to the land of fast food restaurants and fast internet for a few months!
Once again, we have spent 4 straight months on island working our asses off on this boat. And, let's not even talk about the last month...maintenance time every year, I get, well, a little grumpy lets put it that way.
We did most everything we wanted to, we want to change some of our bathroom fixtures and lights this summer, but we will buy them at home and ship them down for next season. We did not get new rain guards done for the cockpit, but you only see the mildew on them when they are down! So, sometime...
We revarnished our cockpit tables which had table epoxy on them this last year which was HORRIBLE and showed water spots each and every time it rained..
OK, I am just babbling now... Happy to have a change!
Well, I am here to show you.
Yes, it smells about as bad as it looks too. Since we are tying the boat up in PUerto Del Rey, Fajardo this summer for hurricane season while we go back to North America (by the way, 17 days until then....a countdown), by the time we returned at the end of October, we would not be able to find these anchors they would be too deep. Hence, we had to pull them up and put them in the storage locker. "we" is not quite true as my help was taking pictures of the performance only!
We are finally leaving dock today. The anchors are coming up, the water has been filled, the storage/work shop has been cleaned up, our power cord has been cut away from the power box, and soon we will run free!!
Bazza's boat, Buoy Boat, has already even been hauled and put into storage at Virgin Gorda Yacht Harbour, we will leave the Bingo Bus for another week or so before hauling it as well.
Off to St Thomas for the weekend, back up to Tortola on Monday for a ton of running around, pick up a few friends for a week next Sunday, and then time to go back to the land of fast food restaurants and fast internet for a few months!
Once again, we have spent 4 straight months on island working our asses off on this boat. And, let's not even talk about the last month...maintenance time every year, I get, well, a little grumpy lets put it that way.
We did most everything we wanted to, we want to change some of our bathroom fixtures and lights this summer, but we will buy them at home and ship them down for next season. We did not get new rain guards done for the cockpit, but you only see the mildew on them when they are down! So, sometime...
We revarnished our cockpit tables which had table epoxy on them this last year which was HORRIBLE and showed water spots each and every time it rained..
OK, I am just babbling now... Happy to have a change!
Saturday, June 19. 2010
Wild weather last night...
Well that was a long night without much sleep... The wind howled, the waves crashed and the boats all danced across and around the dock. On anchor watch in the middle of the night, we heard the Coast Guard a few times on the VHF...
This is not a good marina in a blow like that from the direction it came from, so exposed. I sat in the cockpit for awhile last night planning my escape route. Alternatively, looking at the other side to make sure none of the boats on moorings were going to come down on this.
Calmed down a lot by this morning...This was the view this AM
Unfortunately it was just one of those days. This Trader's boat came into the marina, pulled onto the windward side of the heaving dock, backed in, and then apparently did not have any lines ready. It all went to hell, as they were tossed sideways and under the dock quite a bit....Took awhile to get to get that straightened out with a few crunches. I thought I overheard them say that they thought it would be better in here then out on mooring......
Then Tony from UBS came over, and needed Bazzas help to go tow their boat in. Apparently, they had JUST gotten fuel at Alphonso's and went straight out, only to have the gas they just filled up with be about pure water, and did not make it past Buck Island!!!
We think about now we will just keep our head down and see if we can not be the "3rd strike, you are out" today....
Yesterday afternoon it was still calm enough to go for a dive out in the harbor here, so off I went... I had Groupers....
Flamingo Tongue...
And I scared the hell out of this little turtle who had his mouth in munching away. He left quickly once he realized I was right beside him....
A few spotted drums (?) around...
The eye of an octopus...
A southern sting ray...
Nice little Hogfish. Seeing more around then usual of those lately....
Yeah, more lobster then I know what to do with and I am going to stop taking pictures of them too!
Two HUGE HUMONGOUS angelfish..
And the cutest little puffer that came right up and looked in my camera lens for a minute or two. Not scared at all.
It has been drizzling all day, and is just kind of cold and dreary feeling. I even have the air conditioning off in the boat right now...(I am sure not for long...) I am thinking that movies and TV sound like a great idea, we are down to the last few episodes to watch of this season of LOST, so I think that may be the thing to do.
With popcorn.
And just tired today...Sick of the boat, sick of maintenance, sick of eating low fat low cholestrol crap food that i hate. I think I should stop blogging now!
This is not a good marina in a blow like that from the direction it came from, so exposed. I sat in the cockpit for awhile last night planning my escape route. Alternatively, looking at the other side to make sure none of the boats on moorings were going to come down on this.
Calmed down a lot by this morning...This was the view this AM
Unfortunately it was just one of those days. This Trader's boat came into the marina, pulled onto the windward side of the heaving dock, backed in, and then apparently did not have any lines ready. It all went to hell, as they were tossed sideways and under the dock quite a bit....Took awhile to get to get that straightened out with a few crunches. I thought I overheard them say that they thought it would be better in here then out on mooring......
Then Tony from UBS came over, and needed Bazzas help to go tow their boat in. Apparently, they had JUST gotten fuel at Alphonso's and went straight out, only to have the gas they just filled up with be about pure water, and did not make it past Buck Island!!!
We think about now we will just keep our head down and see if we can not be the "3rd strike, you are out" today....
Yesterday afternoon it was still calm enough to go for a dive out in the harbor here, so off I went... I had Groupers....
Flamingo Tongue...
And I scared the hell out of this little turtle who had his mouth in munching away. He left quickly once he realized I was right beside him....
A few spotted drums (?) around...
The eye of an octopus...
A southern sting ray...
Nice little Hogfish. Seeing more around then usual of those lately....
Yeah, more lobster then I know what to do with and I am going to stop taking pictures of them too!
Two HUGE HUMONGOUS angelfish..
And the cutest little puffer that came right up and looked in my camera lens for a minute or two. Not scared at all.
It has been drizzling all day, and is just kind of cold and dreary feeling. I even have the air conditioning off in the boat right now...(I am sure not for long...) I am thinking that movies and TV sound like a great idea, we are down to the last few episodes to watch of this season of LOST, so I think that may be the thing to do.
With popcorn.
And just tired today...Sick of the boat, sick of maintenance, sick of eating low fat low cholestrol crap food that i hate. I think I should stop blogging now!
Tuesday, June 8. 2010
ongoing maintenance and new website designs!
And the maintenance march continues on board...
Who knew ANYONE could fit into the garbage lockers on the aft quarterdeck? Certainly Bazza nor I cannot, but apparently Felix can! We will no longer have large holes going from the crew cabin to them to the delight of the crew and anyone else who sleeps in there now!
Bazza LOVES having Felix on board to help with the maintenance I can tell. He is thorough, conscientious and although not a speed demon, loves working on boats. Felix is from Dominica originally, but has been working in the BVI for a few years now on day sail boats etc. which are really slowing down this time of year, so it helps both of us out...
Bazza has this afternoon FINISHED going through every inch of the inside of the yacht. It has been scrubbed to within an inch of it's life.
I have to say that I have never seen these "spare tool" bins underneath the back beds been totally cleaned out before. And I think that was from long before we bought the boat in 1998! We did also manage to find a couple pairs of guests underwear down in these holes! Just in case you are missing yours...feel free to email me and describe them to get them back!
And finally, I am getting some new websites. This is a mock up of the new one for this website. I absolutely love it. No, that is not the header picture, a full size snap of the underside of our dinghy, but it was a place holder! This will have my charter specials blog embedded right in the front page...The best part, I am not coding it.
Who knew ANYONE could fit into the garbage lockers on the aft quarterdeck? Certainly Bazza nor I cannot, but apparently Felix can! We will no longer have large holes going from the crew cabin to them to the delight of the crew and anyone else who sleeps in there now!
Bazza LOVES having Felix on board to help with the maintenance I can tell. He is thorough, conscientious and although not a speed demon, loves working on boats. Felix is from Dominica originally, but has been working in the BVI for a few years now on day sail boats etc. which are really slowing down this time of year, so it helps both of us out...
Bazza has this afternoon FINISHED going through every inch of the inside of the yacht. It has been scrubbed to within an inch of it's life.
I have to say that I have never seen these "spare tool" bins underneath the back beds been totally cleaned out before. And I think that was from long before we bought the boat in 1998! We did also manage to find a couple pairs of guests underwear down in these holes! Just in case you are missing yours...feel free to email me and describe them to get them back!
And finally, I am getting some new websites. This is a mock up of the new one for this website. I absolutely love it. No, that is not the header picture, a full size snap of the underside of our dinghy, but it was a place holder! This will have my charter specials blog embedded right in the front page...The best part, I am not coding it.
Sunday, June 6. 2010
A Sunday of Maintenance in the islands...
Another exciting Sunday maintenance day here in the islands...I am actually caught up with my accounting! That is an amazing feat.
Next on the to do list, is updating the websites, especially the Promenade one...
When I say that there has been things taken apart on this boat that have never been before, this is a view in the port ama for those who know it from the laundry closet looking back through the SCUBA gear room and to the small crew cabin in the aft. Look how empty it is! Bazza, has cleaned every surface, and done any minor repairs he sees.....
I see some painting coming up in someone's world (not mine! I imagine Lisa is jealous, that is usually her department!)
Of course, all the SCUBA gear looks like this in the cockpit, but, hey, it is not my department! I am just pleased and grateful that it is getting sorted out, and made pretty. Crew areas NEVER see as much attention as the guest cabins do, and some say, you can tell a boat on how you keep the crew cabins...There just never seems to be enough time for everything that needs to be done on the boat.
I am going to start my search for new boat light fixtures for the cabins, as I think that will modernize the cabins look to go along with some of the other things...
In REALLY exciting news in my world, I am at this moment getting high speed hard wired internet down on the boat...See Kerry do the happy dance! 1000 feet of cable being run from the hotel down to my boat will have me SPEEDING along the internet pathway now..Next thing you know I will be asking for cable television...Hmmmm.
And just like a little Suzy Homemaker I am baking a cake this afternoon. Not sure why, maybe in celebration of having gotten my accounting caught up to date!
Thought about going for a dive this afternoon, but it is already 430, so I may try that tomorrow.
And for the two laughs of the day....
1) Bazza thought about taking this crew cabin back here and putting in an additional smaller generator and a washer dryer. I told him that was fine, but there was not a chance in hell I was climbing down into the ama in those small rooms to do laundry. Since he did not figure he wanted to do it, that idea has gone bye bye...
2) He put a board under our bed in the V berth, this was not thick, maybe an inch or so, but apparently it was JUST ENOUGH so both of us looked like Winnie the Pooh getting stuck in the hole and had a heck of a time getting in and turned around. The board now goes to be stored in the storage locker...
Next on the to do list, is updating the websites, especially the Promenade one...
When I say that there has been things taken apart on this boat that have never been before, this is a view in the port ama for those who know it from the laundry closet looking back through the SCUBA gear room and to the small crew cabin in the aft. Look how empty it is! Bazza, has cleaned every surface, and done any minor repairs he sees.....
I see some painting coming up in someone's world (not mine! I imagine Lisa is jealous, that is usually her department!)
Of course, all the SCUBA gear looks like this in the cockpit, but, hey, it is not my department! I am just pleased and grateful that it is getting sorted out, and made pretty. Crew areas NEVER see as much attention as the guest cabins do, and some say, you can tell a boat on how you keep the crew cabins...There just never seems to be enough time for everything that needs to be done on the boat.
I am going to start my search for new boat light fixtures for the cabins, as I think that will modernize the cabins look to go along with some of the other things...
In REALLY exciting news in my world, I am at this moment getting high speed hard wired internet down on the boat...See Kerry do the happy dance! 1000 feet of cable being run from the hotel down to my boat will have me SPEEDING along the internet pathway now..Next thing you know I will be asking for cable television...Hmmmm.
And just like a little Suzy Homemaker I am baking a cake this afternoon. Not sure why, maybe in celebration of having gotten my accounting caught up to date!
Thought about going for a dive this afternoon, but it is already 430, so I may try that tomorrow.
And for the two laughs of the day....
1) Bazza thought about taking this crew cabin back here and putting in an additional smaller generator and a washer dryer. I told him that was fine, but there was not a chance in hell I was climbing down into the ama in those small rooms to do laundry. Since he did not figure he wanted to do it, that idea has gone bye bye...
2) He put a board under our bed in the V berth, this was not thick, maybe an inch or so, but apparently it was JUST ENOUGH so both of us looked like Winnie the Pooh getting stuck in the hole and had a heck of a time getting in and turned around. The board now goes to be stored in the storage locker...
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