Heading for Home

We've had a very sweaty 7 days in Trinidad and have all jobs accomplished. I will post this, go take a nice long shower and we'll head out to the Wheel House Pub for their Wednesday night BBQ - Ribs and Swordfish! Blugh (Blue) from the boatyard will pick us up in the morning at 5:00 for our 9:30 direct flight to Toronto. Last year, I thought he was taking us a wee bit early, but turned out that we were in line for most of those hours and without the extra time we would have been in a bit of a bind.

New Brunswick, here we come!

Stay tuned for our return in mid November! I had my way this year and sailed only the Windward Islands (from Grenada to Martinique and back), and Laurie gets his say next season and we'll sail from Trinidad and spend our time in the Leeward Islands (BVI's to Dominica)

Thanks to all who follow the blog and make it fun for us to post our wanderings and adventures.

Laurie threatens to post once more from home about our "boatyard blues", so you might look for that in a few days.

Be right home mom. :)xoxo

Haulout at Peake's in Chaguaramas Trinidad

We were hauled on Thursday morning and I made a little video I put together. I could have done a better job, but I think you'll get the idea.
We went out to dinner with friends last night to celebrate Laurie's birthday. They had killer rum punches for only $25.00 each, which is 4.20 Canadian. After two of these, Sue ran home to bed with the spins and today the heat seems just a bit over the top for the rest of us!

Traveling home on May 13th!

Trinidad

We made it through the night accompanied by 2 other boats. Other than 2 close calls with freighters, we had no other incidents.

We'll be hauled out on Friday and will have internet by then.

Cheers,

Dawn

Leaving Grenada

We leave Prickly Bay at 4:00, expecting to hit Chaguaramas, Trinidad at 6:00 or so in the morning. Wind is 15 knots from the east, seas 5-7 feet. We've cleared out from Customs and are just putting in time. We expect to have 4-5 boats accompanying us, but few have made their intentions known. Lots of people are nervous after a piracy event on this leg last December. It appears 7 armed men in a big pirogue stopped a couple in a boat a whopping 30 miles out from Trinidad and the Venezuelan coast. The couple were not physically hurt, but arrived many hours later in Grenada, without much in the way of money or electronics. Nothing has happened since in this particular area, and we are not worried. We'll comment again once we are on the hard in Peake's boat yard, Friday morning, or earlier, if the wifi connections are willing.