Out of the heat to Green Island
Juniper
John and Sally
Wed 17 Mar 2010 00:10
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17:04.539N 61:40.539W
Well we have spent the last week doing jobs and
over the weekend hired a car and toured the island. Found the fruit and veg
market in St John's which was a good experience so fresh avocado, mango, limes
etc now coming out of our ears. It was a great fun being in Nelson's
dockyard for the week with the exception of the heat. In the cabin during the
day the a/c cools the boat to 31degrees! I know that will not garner much
sympathy but on deck doing stainless and polish etc it is truely
hot.
Rather amusing when the cruise liners come around
the dockyard on the tour and Juniper features heavily in their holiday snaps.
Rather inane questions such as "do you just take the sails down at night to
sleep when you do a crossing?" No, and we don't dress for dinner!!
Slowly but surely competitors in an Atlantic rowing
challenge are arriving in the dockyard. 5 boats in and 30 to go. Crossing time
of the 2 who came in last night was 76 days so spare a thought for one solo
rower who still has 1300 miles to go. Not for me.
Met some great characters on the dock - Mrs
Baltimore is a lovely lady in her 70's, long floral dress and great brimmed hat
who does laundry. She sits under the tree in the shade during the day and people
deliver laundry. She takes it away at the end of the day and returns it the next
morning. Maudes laundry also picks up and you can call her on the
VHF!
Great relief today to get back out to sea to check
the repairs on the mainsail and sail over to Green island. Now anchored in the
bay and intend to get the rest of our jobs done out here although we are still
waiting for deliveries - still no dinghy floor.
All well and looking forward to our boys
arriving...
John & Sally
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