Still in transit
Who knew we would stay in Martinique for a whole month, not us, that's for sure. We were supposed to get a replacement unit sent to us for the device which mystically stopped functioning on the Atlantic ocean, but one whole month has now gone and still no new device in sight. Last information we received was that it had arrived in St Marteen, and that was for more than one week ago. Extremely slow service at KVH. Let's see if they can manage to get it solved this week.
During our waiting here we at least had the time to reorganize ourselves after the Atlantic crossing and it took its little time. There were all those stanchions that had to get polished, portholes that had to get cleaned and polished and all lines which had to get washed and scrubbed etc etc. All loose things in the boat are now in their right place again, in the boxes where they belong and everything that we have found out not to be necessary, like all those extra sails that took too much space, are thrown out and left to people who better need them. The hull is cleaned, the bathing platform's treated, all the food and cartons of cans and bottles are reorganized. All of the clothes and garments are washed and everything else is now back to it's shiny, comfortable appearance. Thank god for that, you should only have seen the disaster we managed to create in 3,5 weeks on the sea. Alex has also had the time to fix some fiberglass on our boat and also helped a couple of other boats with their fiberglass work (yes he's a pro in that as well) and in between the cleaning, washing and reorganizing I have kept myself busy creating a new website. A website which will be up in the next couple of days or so. So good and necessary things has definitely gotten done, but still, all this enforced waiting is driving us insane. We need to move on now!
During our waiting here we at least had the time to reorganize ourselves after the Atlantic crossing and it took its little time. There were all those stanchions that had to get polished, portholes that had to get cleaned and polished and all lines which had to get washed and scrubbed etc etc. All loose things in the boat are now in their right place again, in the boxes where they belong and everything that we have found out not to be necessary, like all those extra sails that took too much space, are thrown out and left to people who better need them. The hull is cleaned, the bathing platform's treated, all the food and cartons of cans and bottles are reorganized. All of the clothes and garments are washed and everything else is now back to it's shiny, comfortable appearance. Thank god for that, you should only have seen the disaster we managed to create in 3,5 weeks on the sea. Alex has also had the time to fix some fiberglass on our boat and also helped a couple of other boats with their fiberglass work (yes he's a pro in that as well) and in between the cleaning, washing and reorganizing I have kept myself busy creating a new website. A website which will be up in the next couple of days or so. So good and necessary things has definitely gotten done, but still, all this enforced waiting is driving us insane. We need to move on now!
