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Parade of the Bands

by steve, on August 15th, 2009 (Grenada)

Apart from a brief dose of rain this morning the weather has cooperated for the parade. We had been told it was going to start at 1pm but at that time folks were just gathering in clumps around the lagoon. Sometime between 2 and 2:30 things kicked off. Although we’d seen everything before during Pageant it was great to see everyone out in the streets and be a little more part of it all.

Right now we’re back on the boat for a rest and to eat. We may pop out this evening to see what evening partying will follow the parade.

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Friday Fish Night

by steve, on August 15th, 2009 (Bristol Rose, Grenada)

Did very little yesterday bar read a book all day long. In the evening we took the taxi to Gouyave for the Friday Night Fish night. They’d blocked off an L shaped street and filled it with music and standing frying up fish and fish related foods. Music, as ever, was blaring from speakers and there was a live steel band that piped up later.

We picked and nibbled on many different things and ended up quite full.

Trish and Rob from Bristol Rose were there so it was nice to meet up with them again before they head south to Trinidad.

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A little tourism

by steve, on August 14th, 2009 (Bees Knees, Grenada, Video)

Feeling good about the completion of the battery projects we decided to do a little tourism in the afternoon. We went ashore and visited the Grenada Museum followed by a climb up to Fort George which overlooks the town and where, on October 19th, 1983 Maurice Bishop, the prime minister, was killed.

The fort is a little run down and is occupied by what appears to be the local police and their training center but we could still walk around. In a few places there were some spectacular views of the bay where Dignity is anchored, the lagoon, the Caranage and the town.

In the evening we had Jim over for dinner who brought margaritas.

Project work is going to run into difficulties soon. We are still awaiting parts for a number of projects. To save money we ordered a lot of stuff online in the US and shipped to Ben’s girlfriends home. Three weeks on, one vendor is still playing up, being very uncommunicative and not sending the goods. We now have this in dispute with the credit card company. We still have a number of things we can do but this will cause difficulties at some point. Not fun.

Near term weather is looking good for the parade tomorrow so we’re looking forward to that. We will probably take the bus up to Gouyave for their Friday Fish Festival. Looking a bit further out it looks like the Caribbean is going to get it’s first hurricane next week. Currently it is called Invest 90 and will probably named Tropical Depression 3 fairly soon. If it makes it to storm strength then it will be name Ana. All the computer forecasts have the storm passing over the northern Caribbean. Weather watching is a several times per day event as one needs to be ready to head south if a storm changes direction.

Leaving you with video from Fort George and remaining pics.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxTnbGY5P5U[/youtube]

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Battery Project Complete

by steve, on August 13th, 2009 (Grenada, Trinidad)

I finally declare the battery project complete. All is done. All is put away. Here are a few pics from along the way :

I’ve also installed the additional mains breaker for the charger. Until now it’s been running in parallel off a 40A breaker. Found a 32A breaker in Trinidad and installed/tested it all today. Another item off the list.

Going to my camera I found some pics taken as we left Chaguaramas. May as well let you see them.

Category: Grenada, Trinidad | One reader has left a comment, here is mine

Back to project mode

by steve, on August 13th, 2009 (Bees Knees, Grenada)

The weather improved significantly yesterday so we were back into project mode. The current focus is finishing off the boxing up of the new house battery bank. Helen cut up the old 8D battery box lids so we can cover the 10 batteries sitting in the welded boxes. I focused on cutting wood and building a box for the final two batteries.

I made the box a bit too small at first and the interior angle brackets prevented the batteries from sliding into the box. Helen had the bright idea of putting the brackets on the outside of the box so I started again, this time ending up with a box with a very snug fit. The it was fiber glassing the bottom of the box to create a waterproof section in case of minor spills and leaving that to set. In the middle of all this we went to lunch with Inga, Hal and Jim where we were able to drop off some parts we’d picked up for Hal.

Today we should be able to finish the job off. I hope to install a separate fuse for the house bank charger and mount the dive tank rack I picked up down in Trinidad.

Category: Bees Knees, Grenada | Here is my comment
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