Saturday, March 31, 2012

St. Lucia

We left Martinique yesterday heading for St. Lucia, after the store 'Le Ship' in Martinique told us by phone that they'd get back to us regarding replacing our anchor chain we bought there a year ago. Upon opening email this morning, we have a message from them telling us to drop by. "Drop by"????? We sailed 6 hours yesterday leaving Martinique behind. I guess we'll head north on Monday and get up there and pick up our chain replacement! Arggggh...the hell here never ends!

Rodney Bay is full of our favourite people! We had dinner out last night with old time friend John Fallon. Everything is well in his world and his boat is continuing to get work done and he hopes to be in the water on the new and improved 'Stopp Knot' next season. He's thinking about keeping the boat down in the southern part of Grenada when she's finally launched. For those who don't know, John's boat suffered a serious fire in the boat yard while in storage over the summer months.

Laurie has left the boat this morning to 'chat' with a fellow who sold him an alternator that didn't last a season. The guy also kept our old one after telling us that it was toast and not good for anything. We have learned since that these 500 dollar items are indeed repairable, so let's see how this one turns out!

All for now...