Laurie and I are sitting tied to a mooring ball in the heart of the industrial center of Chaguaramas, Trinidad waiting for the proper winds to take us to Grenada. After listening to discussions this morning on weather Ham radio nets, we feel it may be Tuesday before we can get away. Laurie has taken the dinghy this morning over to customs and immigration to let them know that we will be leaving this vicinity and will head over to Monas Island just around the corner to wait there. It's a bit polluted there, but we've been known to get in for a dip while waiting there, whereas here in Chagauramas, it's not fit for swimming, unless you enjoy oil/gas slicks, dead birds and fish floating by and of course the usual styrofoam and plastic containers!
While at Monas Island, we may work on replacing the water intake valve for the toilet. We discovered a leak in the valve which is under the waterline. Laurie will plug the intake hole from the outside and then will take the valve off and replace it with another, mopping up salt water inside as we go. The whole procedure makes me plenty nervous, but he seems to think it's an easy task. Let's just hope the threads he bought fit the existing threads on the through-hull fitting!
We went to a fund raiser/jumble/food fest last night and bought all kinds of things we have no use for! Laurie really should wear his reading glasses when he buys a complete bag of water filters that fit nothing on Cat Tales! We won a $150 TT door prize for the local grocery store. Don't get too excited because that amounts to about 22.00 Canadian. Fun to win all the same!
While out at Monas Island, we'll not have any Internet, so there won't be any signs of us on Facebook or this Blog until sometime Monday.
Have a nice weekend all.
This documents the continuing adventures of Laurie and Dawn on their sailing vessel Cat Tales, a F.P. Tobago 35. The journey began in 2004. cattales35@gmail.com
