Another side to the not so always glamours side of having a fancy yacht in the Caribbean......

What a night! As I am a complete bore these days on a health regime excluding alcohol bar from Angastura Bitters in my tonic and O’Doul’s (day 26), I tend to go to bed at around 8:30 pm to rise and shine at 06:00. Well not this morning Jose. Well, I rose, but certainly didn’t shine.

My dear Captain was on a roll last night (wine, not dark and stormys), and despite my attempts to secure a good nights sleep well equipped with ear plugs and eye blind, his snores were just too much. Sleepwalked out of the cabin, tripped over his computer cables, discovered all windows were on full blast open, by now I am awake. Slightly agitated I find my way to the front stbd twin cabin. Hit my head whilst lowering myself into the low bunk bed, (bloody hard matress), pull down the not so flattering eye blind and squeeze in trying to make myself comfortable.... then the anchor chain, squuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeck, tug, tug, dunk, gadunk, dunk squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeck. Get up without knocking my head again, closed the door to the front cabin, stumbled back to the Captain’s stateroom and the heads accopagnied to Ray’s snores (lovely nice and cool in there, and no sounds from the anchor.... grrrrrrrrrrrrrmph!!!!), by now I don’t even bother to be quiet. Get out sleeping remedies, drug myself and head back to staff quarters, realising the Skipper did cork the wine bottle with the remaining noble drops and put it back into the fridge before bed, ... it’s all down to priorites!

Was half a sleep half awake for a few hours before I heard some squeeking floorboards, it clearly couldn’t be Ray as he was out, it must be a local thief..... an hour or so later I risk getting out of my bunk and discovers the computer has gone...

Well nothing exciting, the drunken captain had got up in the early hours for a wee and to check on missing crew member and moved computer back to his cabin. I learnt that when he suddenly materialized whilst I was searching for my computer to see if it had been stolen too.... so at 05:00am, no point in returning to bed. Made myself a nice pot of tea, stepped up to the cockpit and made my self comfortable. There is something quite lovely about that. Sitting in the dark with a blanket, slowly seeing the world wakening up. 4 cups later I don’t feel so drugged and starting to wake up. Ray made a guest apparance only to return to the comfort of his bed. I am ready for the day!

Ray's lovely daughter Beccy and equally lovely friend Jeannie are arriving today for a 10 day stay. I sincerely hope they will be completely knocked out by jet lag so the anchor won’t bother them. The weather seems to be improving, the clouds are heading west and hopefully taking the rain with them. We want sun and flat calm seas! We are on a very easy sailing regime, no racing, no long distance sailing, just chilling moving slowly around in true camping spirit. Quite lovely actually, well especially after a good nights sleep....