Packing up
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Mon 22 Jan 2007 11:06
Monday 22nd January,
2007. Puerto La Cruz
This is our last day
onshore before taking off from the mainland. We have been delivering
huge trolley after trolley of tins and packets of food onto the Sarah
Grace. After visiting some more offshore islands, we will then cross
to Cuba, possibly via Haiti, and we have been repeatedly assured that supplies
do not exist beyond this point. In Cuba they have a voucher system, which
means that only locals can generally buy food. We will have to trade here
and there, and we have much rum and soap on board.
We will be sorry to leave
the marina, as the girls have had quite a social life, thundering up and down
the pontoons having water fights. Chris has had quite enough of being here
though, and hates marinas. I won't be sorry to leave the town intact......
it really feels like the wild west. It's amazing how quickly you get
used to the sight of people walking around with guns...
Otti and Mimi have had the
responsibility of feeding fourteen cats, who live around the marina, so they
will have to say goodbye tonight.
We hope to be travelling
from this point with Yacht Jem, a 44' ketch with Mark and Louise Seymour
onboard. They have been battling for ten days to fix their
generator, without success, and have decided that they are coming anyway, sans
freezer and water maker.
A picture of Jem on the
other side of the marina.
Here is a picture giving an
idea of the state of chaos on board as we pack tins into every cupboard
and nook and cranny.
Will be using the satphone
for web postings from now on, so photos will be tiny and poor
quality.....