Wednesday, Eric and Roy spent the day taking the bus from Prickly Bay to Grenada Marine in St. David’s harbor to check on the solar panel rack.  They told him to bring the boat over on Thursday morning to do some fitting, so we whippety whapped Makai into shape and motored the 6 miles up first thing in the morning.  Here the guys are fitting one of the four panels to the rack.

We tied Makai up to a dock in the shipyard.  There are pros and cons to everything.  Being here at the dock there is easy access to land and a spigot for fresh water on the dock, but there are also more flies that a dairy farm during the day and vicious blood thirsty invisible mosquitoes at night.  I take the family to the beach while they guys are working and let the flies come and go as they please, then in the evening we close every thing up and put on the fans to keep the blood sucking mosquitoes away.  Yesterday Roy spotted bats feasting on the mosquitoes, but I think there aren’t enough bats at the smorgasbord to control the situation.

Also, with all the fresh water comes plenty of mud that needs to be washed away.  Roy likes being able to just walk off the boat and find a fishing spot where no one will bother him.

For two days the workers have been fitting, drilling, welding.

They’re really nice guys and have been putting in extra effort before Christmas.  The yard closes down between Christmas and New Year, so they’re trying to get this job done.  Speaking of the yard closing, it was last year this time that Eric, Rodney, George and Jamie, zipped into the yard.  They crossed the Atlantic from the Canary Islands to Grenada in 17 days, and got pulled out of the water and secured just before the yard closed for Christmas.

This rack will hold four 230 watt solar panels, and hopefully will cover all of our electrical needs.

While trying to stay out of the way, the kids and I take Topaz over to the little beach at the shipyard.  Topaz can spend hours pacing back and forth looking for twigs, leaves, and other little pieces of debris floating around.  She clomp clomps over here and then splish splashes over there pouncing on any little thing that floats by.  Meanwhile the sisters sing and dance, swim, make sand sculptures and do other things I can’t even understand.  Today they found a ‘sick’ lizard. Dr. Genny was sure that if she just pushed it’s guts back in, it would run off the operating table and live a long happy life.  In the end, they performed a funeral ceremony.

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The dock we’re at is adjacent to the basin where the travel lift hoists or lowers the boats.  It’s fun to see the many boats in this yard and ask about their story.  The guy next to us bought a boat that was salvaged from a hurricane, apparently the bow was crushed above the waterline.  It looks good now.  Another huge catamaran was launched after  4.5 years in the yard.  One lady today told me when they lifted her boat out of the water it slipped sideways, and so she was worried about them launching it.  She only spoke French, so it was a short conversation.

While the yard does their job, Roy still fishes.  Someday he’s going to catch me a Mahi Mahi.  Until then it’s hot dogs wrapped in bread dough for dinner.

When morning comes, the flies wake up and drive us nuts again.  I don’t see the point in trying to kill them, there are too many.

We are getting into a routine.  Eric has been able to work a bit for Jon and Gary, especially with this great wifi at the shipyard.  So far his extra work is able to pay for the stainless steel solar panel racks.  Next, he’s ordering a fiberglass hard top for the cockpit to be installed in Miami in May.  That will require a few more mornings of computer work than the stainless steel did.

It’s my turn to do some boat work.  It’s really hard to get anything done besides, cooking, cleaning, housework and entertaining the family.  My task is buffing the entire boat.  I did one bulkhead today and felt pretty good until I stepped back and saw what a small % of the entire boat that wall is.

At the end of the day, everyone is ready to rest.