Almost back aboard

[Zanshin]

I've now made it all the way from snowy Bavaria to sunny Carriacou. My boat is still on the hardstand but soon to be splashed; this week was Independence Day and right now it is spring Carnival so nothing is being done in the boatyard; but all I need is some bottom paint and then I can splash back into the water. I booked my first Airbnb stay and managed to get very lucky. I'm at a place called Tree Tops on Carriacou and the place is absolutely perfect. Here's the view towards the east and Petite Martinique and Petit St. Vincent:

[loredo]

You lucky dog!

[Charlie-Bravo]

No such thing as luck, I feel that this guy has just got life’s priorities more or less organised ……. and am a bit jealous of the skills enabling such travel without bankruptcy, there must be downsides to all this adventure ….. but worth it.

Hope your season goes well Zanshin, and the bow thruster repair provides you with challenges and entertainment.

Good looking Airbnb

CB

[Zanshin]

Well, if it makes anyone feel better; things aren't perfectly rosy here after all. Although the place is great, I was in the yard earlier and they should have been finished with the sanding and prepping of primer and bottom paint but now it turns out that they haven't even started. And Monday and Tuesday are Carnival holidays so they won't even start work until Wednesday. Plus I'm fairly certain that any yard work on Thursday is going to be sub-standard due to hangovers from the big celebrations... I'm looking for alternate accommodations as I don't want to sleep aboard while aon the hardstand!

[Charlie-Bravo]

Ahh , the aforementioned downsides , …… but no doubt still worth it if the work ever gets done, the rum over there can knock all the bubbles out of cola in an instant ! so a small delay is inevitable.

On my travels in the islands windsurfing, I used to pack little for myself, just loads of charity shop Levi 501’s ….. size irrelevant but small were good, my windsurf board also benefited from copious wrapping in 501’s for protection. I found that one pair of such jeans = about a months wages for a local, so anything could be achieved for the exchange of a pair of 501’s.

I was only stumped once when a handy local, who having performed a required task, and then recieved his 501 jeans declared “ what about the other one !” , the other one?!!! ……. he said that I had mentioned a ‘pair’ of 501’s and a pair being two meant I was 50% in debt, so I gave him another, plus a bottle of cola bubble dispersant rum and we were all good again.
I then had to google why trousers are called a pair in readiness for a repeat performance.

If you have a spare pair of 501’s on board it might get the bottom painted.

CB

[Zanshin]

Times have changed in the Caribbean and elsewhere. Jeans and similar goods are now freely available. Hard cash or perhaps a new iPhone would be the currency of choice and once Carnival gets going here there's not a chance of any work getting done.

[Charlie-Bravo]

O well , you will just have to embrace Carnival, going easy on the rum.
Enjoy it, you will be afloat soon.

CB