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Adventures on the reef

Roy and Eric have been having Good, Bad, and Ugly adventures on the reef that breaks at the opening to Prickly Bay.  Most days they get dropped off in the dinghy or paddle over to the breakers.  Sometimes they’re alone, sometimes there are a couple of other guys out there surfing.  The waves are small and fun and most importantly, Roy is getting practice.  Unfortunately, I don’t have a picture of these “‘good” adventures.

Sometimes the adventure has complications, “Bad”.  On this day, Roy got bopped in the mouth with the surf board, one of his teeth, not wiggly yet, but needing to come out, popped right out of his mouth and was lost to the reef forever.  There’s some hermit crab trying to figure out if he can squeeze in between the roots. The tooth fairy gave him $5 EC, after a quick math problem to do the conversion, he was a bit miffed with the deal.


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The reef also has it’s “Ugly” side.  On our last day in the bay Roy decided to do a bit of snorkeling.  He had his mask and snorkel, but no fins.  While swimming around, he accidentally kicked a sea urchin and got 3 spines in his foot.  We dug around and poked with tweezers, but couldn’t get it out.  Every once in awhile he works on them but without much luck.  The internet says they will dissolve.  So, we keep checking for infection, and will wait and see what happens.

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Tiki Bar

We’re in Prickly Bay, just a few miles down from Grenada Marine’s shipyard. Here the water is a beautiful blue color and crystal clear. This bay is much wider than St. David’s harbor, but has 20 times more boats. Since I’ve never pulled up the sails, Eric had us tack several miles off shore and practice. First we headed up wind to raise the main up to the first reefing point. That means it was only about 1/3 of the way up. Since the boat is so big and comfortable, the main sail is HUGE, winching it up took forever. I had to take a break and catch my breath, then Roy winched for awhile. Traveling upwind for 20 minutes gave everyone headaches. Next we worked on the jib. Eric found brand new jib sheets, they were really nice and silky to hold instead of salty, dirty old stiff sheets. We pulled the jib out, and of course it was blanketed by the main and not filling correctly. So after a bit of this issue, we headed up again and pulled down the main. This is all normal, especially for sailors who aren’t really familiar of the proper sail combinations on their new boat. Anyway, after a few hours of sailing Makai with 6+ kts over the ground, jib only, we arrived at Prickly Bay.

Eric gave us a tour around the anchorage, the kids went to the bow to advertise themselves and look for other kids. As we came in the channel, a few long haired blonde kids started waving frantically. We continued on through the anchorage and ended up next to the kid boat. They are an Australian family that has been in the Caribbean for 6 years. This anchor location is also the closest spot to the beach and the furthest out of the cruiser’s anchorage. Both of these points are good for our swimming family. Immediately we noticed that the water was a bit more choppy and cooler, but the color is beautiful compared to St. David’s harbor. You can look any of these harbors up on google maps, just remember that google maps is not real time. The land formations are true, but the positions of boats and stuff like that are not.

After only having themselves to play with for a week and a half they finally had friends. Fantasy has a teenage girl, then 7 and 9 year old girls to play with Genny and Marie, and a little boy, 5. The girls pulled out the Little Pet Shop toys, pink Legos, pony movies, dress up and make up, musical shows and any other girly activity you can think of.

They had a sleep over, regular trips to the beach, and finally decided they needed their own space and a bit of quiet time. Whew, so do I!

Friday night a cruiser band played, so all the girls went to the Tiki Bar and danced the night away.


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The music was GREAT! The lead singer is a cruiser from Italy, who sings opera and is married a woman from St. Lucia, has a teenage son who is also in an up and coming band. The sax player is anchored in front of us with a chocolate lab and a son who is also in the up and coming band.

Then there were a few local musicians as well. Anyway they ROCKED! And so did the sons. Apparently, the Tiki bar has something for everyone. Some nights there is bingo, and tonight, Sunday night, there is movie night. We all went and watched the Odd Life of Timothy Green, projected on the back of the stage. We indulged in Rum and Cokes, Shirley Temples, ice cream and french fries. It was a great night out.

There is still a bit of a culture shock here for the kids. I’ve been warning them for years about their increasing sensitivity toward scantily clad people. The man on the boat next to us is usually naked and young kids wear only panties. When they complain about the clothing issue, someone will remind them that the French Islands are ahead of us, and there are nudist beaches, so get over it!

How long will we be here? Hmm, that all depends on the stainless steel guy at Grenada Marine making our solar panel rack. He is still working on another boat. Eric has done his best about nagging this poor guy, but I’m not sure it will get done before Christmas. Then, of course, everything shuts down between Christmas and New Year. So now we’re into January.

We also have grocery issues on board. I’m happy to announce that Eric and I have dropped, just a few pounds, because we only have 3 days worth of food on board at a time. So far we’ve only been able to provision what we can carry in a few back packs while walking a half mile to the bus stop and riding on the crazy van/bus with bags on our laps. Without the solar panels in order, we don’t feel comfortable stocking the freezer, hiring a taxi to load up the stores and filling up on food. Once the panels are on and taking care of our refrigeration, I’ll go to the market, stock up and return with a taxi.

Today was a great day. It was warm, but a bit cloudy. After breakfast, Eric took the kids surfing and I caught up on Bible Study Homework. We’re just finishing Deuteronomy where God impresses obedience and consequences. Moses was a great man who took on responsibility he didn’t sign up for. He made a few mistakes and was banned from the promised land. But, he was 120 years old and had Joshua to take the people across the Jordan. Speaking of God, 12-21-2012 is coming. I’ve met some people that are sure this is the end of the world. So I suggested they better learn to love God because only he knows when it’s coming. I hope it’s not this week, but if it is, heaven is going to be great!

Our Wifi is really weak here, I’ll try to post pictures sometime.

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Haircuts

I have to say, I was quite disappointed when the kids showed no interest in my water collection plans yesterday.  Luckily, today, they started getting into it.  A few times a day a huge rain cloud comes by and dumps many gallons of water for about 5 minutes.  When we feel the first drop, we all go to our stations making sure the canvas is positioned properly over the buckets.  We can collect a bucket or more of rain water off the bimini from one 5 minute storm.  I siphon this water into the solar shower and then we have free showers for the day.

Then Eric came out an announced he wanted me to give him a haircut.  Now, I only have experience with Topaz’s cuts, but Eric and Roy were willing to let me giving it a try.  Eric said the best part of the cut is that we don’t have too many mirrors around.

On Thursday a handful of locals bring their vegetables to the restaurant on the beach here.  We picked up our neighbor, Ann, and went in to load up.

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We got guava, passion fruit, star fruit, bananas, sweet potatoes, eggs, lettuce, yummy passion fruit juice, super long green beans, and bay leaves.  The bay leaves on the counter are to put in all my pantry items to prevent moths and other pantry bugs.  I even quizzed one of the guys there about how to know if a coconut is ripe.  I learned that the young coconuts are full of water.  As they mature, they turn brown, the meat inside hardens and the water dries up.

It’s crazy, I never got the kids to eat green beans at home, but if they bean is 2 feet long, they’ll gobble it up.

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Making Water

Before I get into today’s adventure, I have a little business.  Several people have been reporting that they don’t see all of the photos on a post.  I flipped a few new switches on my photo reduction software and drastically reduced the file sizes.  Lets see if this makes a difference.

I got an email today, my brother, Jim, is up and running with his newest career move.  Jim has many adventures of his own beginning with his years living in Poland.  For the last 20 years he has been a successful ESL teacher in Poland, Direct Marketing project manager in Poland, and then moved in the same career back to the U.S. Most recently he was a marketing manager for a solar electric company in New York.  This year, he switched gears and started a sheep skin import business using his contacts in Poland as well as his wife’s family in Poland.  They are the models and his brother in law is the web designer.  If anyone is interested in a unique Christmas gift visit http://www.europeansheepskins.com/.

Monday our Pal Brian left after 5 weeks in the shipyard with Eric.  You know he’s a great guy to spend all that time doing the dirty work and then to spend another week with my gang of chaos.

We made friends with Brian many years ago when we sailed in Mexico, and had some great times.

After Brian gave up his cabin on Makai on Monday, the kids had me sweating up a storm moving all their bedrooms around.  I  worked on sorting out stuff again, trying to only store each child’s stuff in their room, making sure that all of Eric’s stuff was in one room, and then dealing with the kids’ decorating schemes.  Monday was supposed to be the first day of school, but only token assignments were accomplished.  It’s difficult when everyone is so hot all they want to do is swim.

Yesterday, Eric took Roy to a coconut tree he’s been eyeing.

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Roy’s biggest thrill is bringing down his prey and cracking it open.  He really needs a machete but we’re just not comfortable with it yet, so Roy has to use a hack saw.  The he pours out the coconut water, has few sips and it sits there beckoning me to find a rum recipe for it.  Also, after our cleaning and moving on Monday, I decided to break out Topaz’s dog bed.  Up until now, around 5pm she gets a nice fresh water bath and then after adequate shaking, dripping, rubbing and drying, she ends up on the couch.  Monday I brought out her bed and stuffed in under the chart table at nighty night time and she gets all cozy and happy and doesn’t move until morning.


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We’re still hanging around this shipyard.  You can go to maps.google.com and search on “grenada marine,st. davids, grenada”.  Zoom in and you’ll see exactly where we are.  Don’t forget to select satellite view.  There are several mooring balls in the bay but we’re anchored a little closer in and on the left of the bay.  It’s pretty nice because of the great wifi signal, there are a few beaches nearby that we swim, kayak, and paddle board over to.  It’s pretty easy to walk up and catch a ride to the grocery store, and of course, this is where we’re waiting for our stainless steel solar panel rack to be fabricated and installed.  Thursday a lady comes with locally grown vegetables,  Marie is looking forward to the star fruit.  Then we’ll probably head down the way a bit to Hog Island and Prickly Bay.  Eric said that’s where all the cruisers are with the group activities, group trips to town, raft up parties, etc.  While all that is really great, you loose the serenity and relaxation of being alone.

If you look at the weather here in Grenada, the forecast is 85 degrees and 30% chance of rain. Now I don’t think that means that there is a 30% it might rain as much as it’s going to rain 30% of the time.  In California, 30% chance of rain meant that there might be enough mist in the air for a rainbow.  Here it means there will be a downpour 30% of the day.  Because we don’t have our solar panels yet, Eric runs the engines a few times a day to   bring the holding plates in the refrigerator down and cool the box.  Then he also runs the generator to charge the batteries.  Both of these functions will be taken care of by the solar panels, we hope.  While the generator runs, he makes water.  On our old Makai we used to have a wiz bang cool water maker that made a whopping unheard of 20 gallons of fresh water per hour.  That was state of the art and provided us with all the water we needed to be comfortable.  This new Makai makes 40 gallons and we’re in heaven.

After the first few days, we realized that the water was also being used a rate substantially greater that in the old days.  Now we have more pressure pumps on the boat, more people, and less conservation experience, so our water usage is a bit high.

Today we worked on capturing God’s gift.  He’s been providing us with plenty of free water, we just need to collect it.

The cockpit is covered with a huge bimini and wings on each side to provide extra shade when the sun is low in the sky.  We tied this and that together to make a funnel to collect water in our buckets. Today’s experiment provided 3 huge buckets of water for showering after swimming and the end of the doggie day bath for Topaz.  We collected enough that we have left overs for tomorrow.

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Lessons

We haven’t cracked a school book since Monday, but many lessons have been learned this week. Besides the responsible traveling lesson they learned on Tuesday, we’ve learned:

 

  1. It’s very easy for things to fall overboard and if no one sees it or cares to retrieve it, it’s lost and gone forever. To prevent this problem everything must be stored in a safe place or tied to the boat. This is an ongoing lesson that we’ve discussed in theory, but now we’re seeing the practical reasons.
  2. Doing simple jobs to completion. Like that cup of juice that someone left on the table. I’ve asked for it to be cleaned up several times and saw it get moved from one place to the next but never getting cleaned up. The problem with this is that it will eventually spill. Since we are not in “the land of plenty” anymore, a spill uses up paper towels or a cloth towel that needs to be washed, it uses up water which has to be made using fuel, it uses mom’s energy in the hot cabin which drastically lowers mom’s mood meter into the red.
  3. People from other countries don’t wear these full coverage bathing suits we’re used to, sometimes they don’t see the need to swim with clothes on at all, and aren’t shy about it either. Once again, we’ve had this discussion that you shouldn’t criticize other peoples choice in swim wear. Especially with boaters where they have to wash and dry clothing with water that they either carried to the boat or made using fuel to run the water maker.
  4. You don’t always get to sit where you want to on the bus. (see lesson 4)
  5. Waste and gluttony. Both mean you’ve used up too many supplies. Yesterday Brian took the kids and me to the grocery store. We walked a sweat dripping half mile to the main road where we were lucky enough to catch the bus right away. The bus is a van similar to Volkswagon van with 4 rows of seats that fit about 4 people each and cost about $7 for 5 of us. The door slides open and everyone crams in where ever they fit. Then the wild ride begins through the narrow streets, driving on the left side around people and parked cars, heading into traffic half the time. At the store we loaded the cart with the necessities. There is a minimum selection. Small apples for $1 a piece, was the fruit selection, we didn’t get them. One type of cheese, it’s a very delicious white cheddar from New Zealand, 17.6 oz for $6. In the end we spent about $90 for just less than a week of food. That sounds about right to me. Now for the trip back. Everyone filled their back packs up and ‘jumped’ on the next bus back, walked that sweat dripping half mile back to the boat and went swimming. Now when the kids say they’re hungry, they know what we have, they carried it, and they know what their choices at the market are. Next time they go, they can be sure they select foods that will satisfy them.
  6. Water and power conservation. We’re waiting for the man at the shipyard to make the solar panel rack, he hasn’t started yet, so we have no idea when he’ll be finished. Those panels should adequately supply us with enough power for our refrigeration, lights, one movie a night, and electronics charging. Until then Eric runs the engines for a few hours a day to keep the refrigeration cold and charge the batteries, and the generator to make water and charge batteries. Hopefully, the panels will take care of everything except the water. Yesterday we used more than 40 gallons of water. Our water makes 40 gallons an hour using reverse osmosis. This means a high pressure pump forces sea water through a fine membrane that removes everything except the H2O. This boat has electric pumps that pump the water from our tanks to each sink and the shower hose in the back. You have to be really careful with the pressure pump because it can be wasteful. Today we’re going to fill the solar shower for our rinse offs and see if that cuts back on the water, and someday maybe get a foot pump in the galley for dish washing.

 

I have lots of lessons to learn. Eric said this boat is as complicated as the space shuttle. Roy and I learned how to work the anchoring mechanisms, and that’s about it. There are about 50 switches at the nav station, then there are all the other systems on the boat, plumbing, electrical, refrigeration, engine, and sail. I’ll never learn them all, but do need to be familiar with where they are and how to work them. Until then I think I’ll look for something to clean.

 
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Here’s another lesson.  On a sail boat, anything you hoist up with a halyard, should always be tied down to the the deck as well.  For instance, sails are attached to the boom or the forestay so when you hoist them up, they can be pulled down as well.  The flying ballerinas had their swing chair hoisted up and tided down as well, but someone had the bright idea to take the line off the bottom so they could hoist it higher.  Then it went up and wrapped around a shroud about three times.  Oops!

 

Next, Roy got hoisted up.  Eric put him in a rock climbing harness and attached it to the shroud so he wouldn’t swing from one side of the boat to the other.  I can’t believe it, he wasn’t also fastened to the deck, but it was thought that his 75lbs of boy flesh would allow him to use gravity to be lowered.  Everything went well and hopefully a lesson was learned.  I also described what it would be like if something like this happened while we were underway in the wind and waves, hopefully caution can be exercised when messing with halyards.

Food! I’m very interested in learning about the local foods.  One reason is that they are less expensive than food shipped from the U.S. and another is this is where it’s grown, and also let’s be flexible and open minded.  Today we’re having star fruit and passion fruit.  Do you know how much this stuff costs at Von’s?  It was delicious, sweet, ripe, but only Brian and I enjoyed it.  I couldn’t get anyone else to go for it.  They’re all going to get scurvy!

Since I made the kids carry all those supplies, I figured we could treat ourselves to Christmas Cookies.  Sugar cookies from one of my cabin cookbooks, taste the same.  I even shared a few with the guy from Prague on the next boat over.  He said he’s been speaking Russian for 60 years and is learning English here in Grenada.  I think he’s doing much better with English than I am with Russian.

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No one is going hungry with Roy around

Fishing is always at the top of Roy’s list.  Today he used about a 1/4 lb of bologna catching this fish.  Every time he would leave his bait unattended, Topaz would come buy and eat it.  The kids kayaked to shore and came back with coconuts for a break.  We don’t have a machete, so Roy used a hack saw instead.  When he caught this fish, his pole was bending in the rod holder on the starboard hull and he was trying to cut the top off of his coconut with a hack saw on the port hull.

 

Brian and I went to shore this morning to buy fruits and veggies from a lady selling a table full of goodies.  We bought potatoes that looked like yams on the outside and white potatoes on the inside and in the end they tasted like sweet white potatoes.  We got passion fruit which is a small ball with sweet yellow pulp and soft eatable seeds inside, Brian called it monkey brains.  We also got 2 small cabbages, lettuce, star fruit, bananas and 12+ inch long green beans.

Many months ago, we scavenged this basket chair from Tesse Harrison’s cabin.  Genny had this vision of her swinging in it on the boat.  Last night she choreographed her dance routine called The Flying Ballerinas.  Here Marie is demonstrating one of their moves.  Roy swings the rope so the girls can fly through the air from one side of the boat to the other.

Its so hot and humid here, we swim constantly.  The kids love to jump off the bow, it’s about 7 or 8 feet to the water.

 

 

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They’ve devised a method of climbing up a rope attached to the anchor chain as a short cut to their diving platform.

They also whip poor Topaz into such a frenzy, that she jumps off the bow as well.  We’re not encouraging this as it’s too high for her.

By the end of the day, Topaz is so exhausted that she begs to be left alone.  Topaz jumps in and chases anyone who leaves the boat, or swims at the boat.  When we go snorkeling, she swims around us.

But, back to dinner.  We had sauteed veggies, salad, Roy’s fish seasoned and pan fried, and noodles with sauce. I’m still trying to identify this fish, but Brian said he saw it in the fish market, so we ate it.

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Arrived

 

 

 
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More completed projects

Between yesterday and today we:

Hooked up the AIS system

Did Laundry

Installed a circulation fan for the front refrigerator:

 
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We also installed the ham radio

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Packing

Today was Topaz’s haircut day.  Does she look cold?  I read several articles about shaving down your Golden Retriever.  They say it doesn’t reduce the shedding, the dog just sheds shorter hairs, and it doesn’t make them cooler because the coat was designed to protect them from the sun and heat.  So why do I clip her down?  To make brushing and grooming easier and to conserve water for her daily fresh water bath from our precious watermaker water.  Hopefully she’ll also dry faster and reduce the wet dog smell, she won’t shake as much sea water around the boat, and those long golden retriever hairs won’t stick to everything in the cockpit.

After the haircut, I got busy on packing.  Over the last year I reduced two households of ‘stuff’ down to a few things in the shipment, a few things in the van and a few things in our suitcases.  Each duffle has to be less than 50 lbs, and then we each have a large carry on, plus a back pack. I packed everything except my clothes and everyone’s pillows and blankets, and we are at our weight maximum.  I’ll have to come up with an idea tomorrow.

Tuesday is giving me HIGH anxiety, Roy has it too.  Tonight at dinner he said, “we have to get all this stuff on the plane and what if it’s too heavy, or what if there’s something wrong with Topaz’s papers.”  Yes my son, I have the same thoughts.  I spent the whole day with a stomach ache from the stress.

But it’s nice to know some people don’t have anxiety.

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They even managed to make cake pops.

Then I found this nice picture from a day last week.  No one was stressed here.

 

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More fun in Florida

Now we’re wrapping up our last week in Florida.  Life has been very comfortable here.  Roy is learning to be our BBQ boy, it makes dinner preparation easier when someone is in charge of the outside cooking and the girls are setting up the table.  The girls are always busy with something.  The spent an afternoon making embellished headbands, Genny wrote a very long story about Tutu a pink poodle.  The girls are also busy planning and putting on shows.  Roy read a few books and is becoming an expert in the game of Solitaire.  After dinner, we all play rummy.  Nannie plays regular Rummy with the girls in one room and I play Rummy 500 with Roy in another room.

This week we also played another round of miniature golf.  Near Disney World, things like miniature golf are over the top.  Congo River golf has holes in caves, along waterfalls, over cliffs, and giant drops.  Of course the also offer alligator feeding and paddle boat rides.

 

On Friday we joined the MidFloridaHomeschoolers to see the play Junior Claus in Orlando.  The theater is across from the art museum with this unusual lawn display of 20 giant dogs.

Saturday was a trip to dog beach.  Since Kissimmee is in the middle of the state, you can go 1-2 hours east to the Atlantic or the same distance to the Gulf of Mexico.  We went to New Smyrna Beach on the Atlantic coast.  I’m always interested in these beaches as possible Makai destinations.  You can go to www.activecaptian.com to see nautical charts and the all important bridge heights.  Makai’s mast is 70 feet high and many of the fixed bridges are 65 feet high, but the inlets offer some fun beaches and if we figure out safe places to leave the boat we can explore the town a little too.


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The pups are loaded up and ready to go to the beach.

JJ is a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever from Buffalo, who has a pool to swim in all summer, and Topaz is a Golden Retriever from Southern California who swims at the beach and in rivers.  JJ, not being used to salt water needed a bit of time to get used to fetching the salty stick.  In the end, he was faster but Topaz would swipe it from him on his way back.

The sand was fine, white, clean, and soft.  The kids had fun digging and building sand castles.  Mom was sporting her new bikini figure, $19.99 at the shell shop near the beach, you can have one too!

 

This beach required a hike through the mangroves and over a boardwalk.  The mosquitoes were thirsty and the sand burrs were dangerous, but fun was had by all.  The kids commented on how the next time they go to the beach, they won’t have to walk, just jump in.

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