A swimmer makes sure the straps are placed at the strong points of the boat. These boys work like a well oiled machine!
Up and up we go.
In slides a second huge piece of equipment to transfer us for the ride around the boatyard.
Getting ready to transfer and go for that drive.
After the blocking is complete, the mother ship pulls away, and we're on our own.
Sometime along our 6 month visit to the Caribbean, Cat Tales was injured. We had no idea until the boat dried and the weeping began. Laurie is outside working away on a repair while he weeps. More than likely, a boat boy trying to sell us bananas, or something very important hit us while hanging on to the side of our boat. Many of these guys have fenders to protect us, but some don't and they can have nasty nails and screws sticking out here and there!
Laurie has already drained the sail drives (2 engines) and fogged them both. He has also made a few repairs to hoses in the engine room that were leaking over the past couple of years. Hopefully, that will be the end of that! He has agreed to crank Andrew up to the top of his mast at 5:00 when it's perhaps a wee bit cooler. (Andrew is from the boat Zepher's Zest)
We have plugged in the air conditioner which works very well at night when the sun is down, however, it's a mean 35 degrees Celsius inside the boat during the peak of the day. I do what I can to work inside, because the outside is so hot, it's crazy! Poor Laurie is outside right now. Shower time and then a cold beer at the end of the day is sooo lovely!
