Search This Blog

06 March 2018

Boat people, too busy to post

So here I am, sitting in my windowless cubicle at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, outside temperature 46 degrees Fahrenheit, while Raconteur is (probably) at or near Union Frigate Island, SVG.  Susan and JP arrived to Grenada on 31 January, and splashed the following Monday (I think), the 5th of February.  A series of challenges - mostly with the watermaker - ensued - I'll just have to hope one of them tells the stories - and the poor things were trapped in Grenada until the 3rd of March, when they made the epic sail to Carriacou and then on to Union yesterday.  It was always going to be a bit of an abbreviated and interrupted sailing season - JP had to be in Europe mid/late January - and now we are doing the move out of the Chester house starting the 18th of March, so the boat people are coming back (instead of Leigh going down).  That will entail packing, moving out, storing most things in Stevensville for now, and driving the new Santa Fe and a UHaul to Florida with wine, clothes and whatever we don't want to put in storage.  We'll be in Europe for the second half of April, so Raconteur will be back on a mooring in Grenada and looked after by a boat minder, until the first part of May.  Leigh hopes to join for maybe Memorial Day...to be seen!  There...I've done a post for 2018.