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Thursday, March 31, 2011
The MOST expensive
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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Monday, March 28, 2011
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Fort Berkley
"Not to mention the three-deckers in the harbour."
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Antigua -- 17N and counting
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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Monday, March 21, 2011
More Pirates of the Caribbean
More Pirates of the Caribbean
We were recently in Dominica, where Pirates of the Caribbean II was filmed. When we went on our tour of the island, we passed many of the places that were recognizable in scenes in the movie. The cannibal village and bone cage scenes were filmed up in the mountains near Trafalgar Falls. The swamp scenes were filmed at the Indian River. The old church and water wheel scenes were filmed up north, near a large bay. And to top it all off, the sea chase scenes were filmed in one of the bays on the northeastern coast. The Indian River we visited two days before our island tour, and we also saw many other cool things, including a large and very pretty garden. The driver of the van in which we took our island tour pointed out all the movie settings as we passed, but the most recognizable was the coconut plantation where they did the water wheel scene.
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
House vs. Boat
Everyday life on a boat is very different than from life in a house. For one thing, you don't have to go in a dinghy to go shopping. But, a car uses more gasoline than a dinghy, and we only have to refill the gas can for the motor once in a while. And in a house, you don't have to conserve electricity almost all the time. On a boat, there is, basically, a ladder, to get "upstairs". You use a staircase in a house, if it is a two-story house, that is. One can conclude that life in a house is much more luxurious than life on a boat.
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Saturday, March 19, 2011
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Time for Dominica's
Later, the mid-morning rainshower, followed by the mid-late-morning rainshower.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
A rare photo of Juno underway
It was taken by our new friends aboard the Italian sailboat Malu III, which passed us at EIGHT knots.
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
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Friday, March 11, 2011
St. Pierre
St. Pierre
St. Pierre was once the capital of Martinique. Now it is Fort de France, but in 1902, the capital was here, in St. Pierre. It was a big town then, the commercial center of Martinique, before it was destroyed in a volcanic eruption. The disaster occurred on the 8th of May, 1902. Well, several minor disasters happened in the preceding days, but the main eruption happened on May 8th. For some reason, most of the population stayed in spite of several deaths around the city. When the main eruption came, about 29,933 people were killed, leaving only two survivors, a cobbler in his basement, and a murderer in prison. Twelve ships were destroyed at anchor, while one managed to escape, but with many casualties. This is not the first city that was destroyed by volcano we have visited. Pompeii is famous for it, and we have also visited several other volcanoes in our travels. Perhaps the most famous were Vesuvius, Etna, and Stromboli.
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St. Pierre was once the capital of Martinique. Now it is Fort de France, but in 1902, the capital was here, in St. Pierre. It was a big town then, the commercial center of Martinique, before it was destroyed in a volcanic eruption. The disaster occurred on the 8th of May, 1902. Well, several minor disasters happened in the preceding days, but the main eruption happened on May 8th. For some reason, most of the population stayed in spite of several deaths around the city. When the main eruption came, about 29,933 people were killed, leaving only two survivors, a cobbler in his basement, and a murderer in prison. Twelve ships were destroyed at anchor, while one managed to escape, but with many casualties. This is not the first city that was destroyed by volcano we have visited. Pompeii is famous for it, and we have also visited several other volcanoes in our travels. Perhaps the most famous were Vesuvius, Etna, and Stromboli.
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Mt. Pelee
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Fort de France
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
The Stations of the Cross
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Sunset over Diamond Rock, Martinique
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Monday, March 7, 2011
No motor
Come to think of it, this is the first time that just the three of us have sailed without the motor on. We have had the main up with the engine on before, but this time we had the main and yankee up with no motor. It was the passage to Martineque, the first longish passage for a while in the Caribbean. It lasted for a few hours, with a large swell, but near the end it calmed down greatly as we approached Martineque for the first time on this boat.
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Sunday, March 6, 2011
A nice Bordeaux for €3 a bottle?
Fine, then. The Italian wine is almost gone. Boys, time to fill the bilges!
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
The Backstay
The Backstay
Our backstay is the 3/8" wire rope that runs from the stern to the masthead. It can be tensioned or loosened with a hydraulic ram mounted an the stern. Since Barbados it has needed a major repair, namely, the attachment point at the mast head. It uses a swage fitting, and what Dad realized was that the wire took a ten degree bend where it exited the swage fitting. This could lead to a backstay failure, which in turn could lead to dismasting. This is definitely bad, so we needed to replace the masthead fitting. We are not capable of attaching a swage terminal, we would need to take the whole backstay to a machine shop, so Dad decided to use a Sta-lok terminal as a replacement. We can attach a Sta-lok, the, just not at the masthead. So we had to lower the backstay. This is not as easy as it sounds, first we needed to set up a jury backstay to take the load of the mast. We already had a running backstay on either side of the boat, and we added two more replacement backstays along the path of the real one. Once this was done we used a spinnaker halyard to lower it to the deck, where we could easily work on it. We then tried to cut the wire at the swage fitting with our emergency pair of bolt cutters. The bolt cutters were there just in case we needed to cut the rigging for some reason, and we needed to try them out. Guess what? They don't work! The emergency wire cutters that we may need don't work. I don't know what we are going to do about it, but I really hope we never need to use those cutters. Then we discovered something else. When we tried to cut it with the bolt cutters, we severed a strand, and we didn't have enough wire left to attach the Sta-lok terminal. Luckily we had a enough extra length in the turnbuckle at the stern to make up the difference, but we didn't even follow the basic rule: measure twice, cut once. Attaching the Sta-lok was difficult, but since describing it requires lots and lots of technical details, I will leave it out for those who do not like technical details. When the terminal was attached, we hoisted the backstay up to the masthead, Dad climbed the mast again, and he reattached the stay up there. After he came back down and we fought with the wire that kept sagging under its own weight, we managed to get it reattached at the stern. After that it was a simple matter of putting everything away and pumping up the hydraulic ram to tension the stay again. Once we had stowed the replacement backstays, everything was finally back to normal.
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Our backstay is the 3/8" wire rope that runs from the stern to the masthead. It can be tensioned or loosened with a hydraulic ram mounted an the stern. Since Barbados it has needed a major repair, namely, the attachment point at the mast head. It uses a swage fitting, and what Dad realized was that the wire took a ten degree bend where it exited the swage fitting. This could lead to a backstay failure, which in turn could lead to dismasting. This is definitely bad, so we needed to replace the masthead fitting. We are not capable of attaching a swage terminal, we would need to take the whole backstay to a machine shop, so Dad decided to use a Sta-lok terminal as a replacement. We can attach a Sta-lok, the, just not at the masthead. So we had to lower the backstay. This is not as easy as it sounds, first we needed to set up a jury backstay to take the load of the mast. We already had a running backstay on either side of the boat, and we added two more replacement backstays along the path of the real one. Once this was done we used a spinnaker halyard to lower it to the deck, where we could easily work on it. We then tried to cut the wire at the swage fitting with our emergency pair of bolt cutters. The bolt cutters were there just in case we needed to cut the rigging for some reason, and we needed to try them out. Guess what? They don't work! The emergency wire cutters that we may need don't work. I don't know what we are going to do about it, but I really hope we never need to use those cutters. Then we discovered something else. When we tried to cut it with the bolt cutters, we severed a strand, and we didn't have enough wire left to attach the Sta-lok terminal. Luckily we had a enough extra length in the turnbuckle at the stern to make up the difference, but we didn't even follow the basic rule: measure twice, cut once. Attaching the Sta-lok was difficult, but since describing it requires lots and lots of technical details, I will leave it out for those who do not like technical details. When the terminal was attached, we hoisted the backstay up to the masthead, Dad climbed the mast again, and he reattached the stay up there. After he came back down and we fought with the wire that kept sagging under its own weight, we managed to get it reattached at the stern. After that it was a simple matter of putting everything away and pumping up the hydraulic ram to tension the stay again. Once we had stowed the replacement backstays, everything was finally back to normal.
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A Near Collision
A Near Collision
A few days ago, we came the closest to having a collision yet. The strange thing was, we were just sitting there. We were on a mooring, not moving, and were just about to set out on a dinghy trip around the bay. We were having some trouble with the outboard, namely, it flooded and when we tried to fix it by cranking it without the fuel line, we didn't put the fuel connector on properly and it let air in. While we were messing with it, we noticed a small catamaran motoring directly at us. There seemed to be no one at the helm, the only person on deck was taking a picture of a yacht to his stern. Eventually Dad had to shout to get him to notice us, and then he barely got his boat stopped in time to avoid a collision. You really need to be careful in an anchorage, and this was a perfect example of what not to do when entering a harbor.
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A few days ago, we came the closest to having a collision yet. The strange thing was, we were just sitting there. We were on a mooring, not moving, and were just about to set out on a dinghy trip around the bay. We were having some trouble with the outboard, namely, it flooded and when we tried to fix it by cranking it without the fuel line, we didn't put the fuel connector on properly and it let air in. While we were messing with it, we noticed a small catamaran motoring directly at us. There seemed to be no one at the helm, the only person on deck was taking a picture of a yacht to his stern. Eventually Dad had to shout to get him to notice us, and then he barely got his boat stopped in time to avoid a collision. You really need to be careful in an anchorage, and this was a perfect example of what not to do when entering a harbor.
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And . . . Tah-dah!
Time to celebrate . . . at the new Indian restaurant in Rodney Bay!
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Trying out our big, giant bolt cutters
At any rate, here's what we can expect: THEY WON'T WORK!! The handles will break before it gets through even a few of the 19 strands.
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