Author: john

Finally Made It!!!!!!!

The last day wasn’t all plain sailing.

I’m sure Steve will explain in greater detail, but the result is that the house charger isn’t working and the water maker is broken.

We sailed around the island to the west side where the anchorage is. It’s beautiful, stunning cliffs, and steep hills covered in lush green foliage and palm trees.

Merlin, a boat that we have seen and heard loads during our travels, were in their dinghy and came to say hello, there are a few boats that we’ve seen about before and some that had just left to move on to other islands. I sure that we’ll bump into them at some point.

We anchored, cracked open some cold beers and started to cook our BBQ. It was delicious.

I had a very nice sleep, the only time I was interrupted was to close my window due to rain and I feel pretty good this morning.

Steve and I will sort out the dinghy so we can go ashore, I think we’re going to trek to a waterfall.

We all have some boat chores to do, I’m sure we’ll work through the list over the next few days.

Pretty much a nothing day.

We are so close I think I can smell the baguettes being made, but realistically we are still a day away. We had the slowest period for the last few days this afternoon.

The good news is that our distance to destination is now showing tenths of a mile on the chart plotter. Also our estimated time of arrival keeps popping up, but this varies wildly from tomorrow afternoon to never.

No fish, but we are planning tomorrows evening meal which is going to be a BBQ. Ribs, burgers, chicken and most importantly BEER!!

Well we’re 2 days from landfall unless something amazing happens.

Me and Steve swapped the anchor chain around from end to end, the really rusty end is now attached to the boat and the not so rusty end to the chain. A very dirty job, but one that sort of needed to be done before we arrived.

Steve has put some beers in the fridge to cool. It feels a bit more like we’re coming to the end.

No fish 🙁

Well we’re 2 days from landfall unless something amazing happens.

Me and Steve swapped the anchor chain around from end to end, the really rusty end is now attached to the boat and the not so rusty end to the chain. A very dirty job, but one that sort of needed to be done before we arrived.

Steve has put some beers in the fridge to cool. It feels a bit more like we’re coming to the end.

No fish 🙁

Not much to report.

Speeds are still rubbish, but we are getting there slowly.

Steve made an alarm system for the fishing lines. He MacGyvered something out of copper, clothes pegs, telephone wire and my suggestion for the alarm, the annoying train sound thing out of the train dominoes game.

It took a few hours to complete and test, would be nice to have some fish to test it out for real.