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Chaser 2
Yvonne Chapman
Sat 13 Jan 2007 20:15
Now the new years in we sent our watermaker for repair so we're waiting for that to return.
Yvonne's brother Jon left Gran Canaria last Saturday, so they are well on their way, we keep in touch with them via satellite phone. I'm know they appreciate the call and knowing someone knows where they are, and we can give them an up to date weather forecast. They should arrive in a couple more weeks.
One of the boat boys here in Rodney bay, a bit more entrepreneurial, does our laundry, he passed the day before yesterday and asked if we wanted to go for a BBQ on beach, 40EC dollars each, that's about 12 euros, all you can eat, all you can drink, (good job Jim and Fraukje weren't there, he'd go broke) (just jokin kids) What a good night, we dingied across the beach, all his family were there to help and pull dinghies in and pass out the rum punch. They set a BBQ, chicken, lamb, sausage, burgers and of course Rum and strong Rum.No beer, but there was a tiny shack of a bar on the other side of the beach, so we could buy a beer chaser. So it was a good night we met some Canadians and Americans also anchored in the bay and met up again with some ARC boat people. The only strange thing, we got there just after 4pm it gets dark at 6pm, no lights around the beach so one of Jonnies family hung up some beer bottles from the trees filled with clear liquid with a cotton wool wick, you guessed it Molotov cocktails, but they didn't explode, we were there chatting, eating drinking, until tiredness or drunkenness set in and we all decided to make our way back to our respective boats. Back on board, I said to Non shall we have a drink, watch TV or go to bed, thinking it was gone midnight, we looked at the clock it said 8.30, we didn't believe, we even checked the batteries, then checked on the laptop. It WAS 8.30!
So we had another rum or two and watched TV!
