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Traveler Caribbean is Calling (2024)
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- Jan 21, 2024
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Altitude: Sea level
- Antigua and Barbuda Parish of Saint Paul The Ordnance Land The Dockyard 17.006832, -61.76444617°0’25” N 61°45’52” W
Day 8
Moving Lorena
January 21 in Antigua and Barbuda ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Yoga class was a hit! I just taught to Maria (a fellow yoga teacher from Sweden who sails on a Swan 65) and we did a one hour class at AYC. Then we had coffee and chatted for another 1.5hrs.
She was returning to the boat and I went to see if our tender/ dingy was still at the dock. It was and I was going to head to Nelson’s to look for Brian when he appeared. He had gotten into a conversation while redoing another version of the pillars (part of the Boom restaurant at Admirals Inn) with a professional artist, Philip Gray.
We headed back to the boat and decided to move it again, in further toward Nicolas and Maria to get out of the swells. Anchoring doesn’t always work in the first, second or third try so it is stressful for Brian. However, we squeezed into a space. Later we went for a swim to Blue Magic but they were not at the boat. Maria came by shortly after and needed to borrow Starlink. We invited her for super (salad and turkey sausages) and then to visit friends at Nelsons Dockyard.
She agreed…. After super we headed to Lena (Jeremy and Diane’s Amel) and stopped to see Nicolas along the way and he decided to leave TOT’s (a scotch club) and join us.
We had a nice evening chatting with other sailors. Babs and Tim were heading to Guadeloupe in the morning.
Back to the boat and bed… Mondays a work day!Read more
Traveler You sound very busy and lots of friends and fellow sailors
1/22/24Reply
Traveler I go between not leaving the boat for a few days in a row to socializing every day :-)
1/23/24Reply
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Traveler Nomadic November
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- Nov 20, 2023
- ⛅ 30 °C
- Altitude: 8 m
- Antigua and Barbuda Parish of Saint Paul The Ordnance Land The Dockyard 17.00856, -61.76400817°0’31” N 61°45’50” W
Day 20
Re-test
November 20, 2023 in Antigua and Barbuda ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Sadly, there is not a lot of gluten free options here, but every morning the bakery comes by to the boats to sell item and Brian often gets a croissant. I usually make eggs or yogurt and granola.
Boat work and my work was the task for the day. Less tired today, but starting to get a cough. Brains crew, that left before I arrived, thinks that he/me were faking the Covid story so we could spend time alone and are snubbing him altogether. I had him pick up another test, as I would be happy to have them on the boat. Again, super faint line…. But Mr Google says that still means Covid. I don’t think I left the boat at all today.Read more
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Traveler Nomadic November
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- Nov 17, 2023, 7:27pm
- 🌬 28 °C
- Altitude: 8 m
- Antigua and Barbuda Parish of Saint Paul The Ordnance Land The Dockyard 17.008657, -61.76399217°0’31” N 61°45’50” W
Day 17
Quarantine
November 17, 2023 in Antigua and Barbuda ⋅ 🌬 28 °C
Hot hot night and a restless sleep. Woke up, had some coffee but didn’t feel like food. We had to get the main sail off to replace the batten, so we documented it and then took it off. I was feeling really weak! I waited beside the sail and the grass, and chatted with a local guy named Leroy (who paints boats). We had a long conversation about Rastafarians and what it means to him — Spirituality, love, being the best version you can be.
Brian was working on the boat and came over when Zimbabwe around selling clams. He bought 2.5lbs for $20.
I cooked up some eggs for lunch and then decided I was just to weak and needed to sleep. I laid in the helms cabin for a few hours, dozing on and off, catching a nice cross breeze while Brian took a conference call and created a beautiful pastel.
While I was still laying down a public health officer came by as he had heard that I had Covid (word travels fast) and informed Brian that I need to stay in the boat except the bathrooms on shore for 5days. Gladly, my sore throat has receded and I am just exhausted.
We cooked up the clams and determined that they didn’t smell good or we didn’t cook them correctly, so threw them overboard and cooked up some steak.
We took a nice evening stroll, mask in hand and had a great conversation with John and Lena from Two Captains (and Dodger the dog), stopped at an open air restaurant (with a lone table at the bottom of stairs away from everyone) and had some water (San Pellegrino and regular) before heading back to the boat for the night.
In the middle of the night it started raining and all the hatches were open, so we scrambled to close everything up.Read more
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Traveler Nomadic November
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- Nov 19, 2023
- ☁️ 29 °C
- Altitude: 8 m
- Antigua and Barbuda Parish of Saint Paul The Ordnance Land The Dockyard 17.008658, -61.76587217°0’31” N 61°45’57” W
Day 19
Covid fatigue
November 19, 2023 in Antigua and Barbuda ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Exhausted today! I tried to do some work but had to sleep a lot of the day as I was really tired. Walked around Nelson Dockyard and Admirals inn for an evening stroll. I think Brian is coming down with Covid too.
The glassing work in the boat is nearly done, we are waiting for the carpet and chairs to be cleaned, and the sail to come back from North Sails and then we will head to either the anchorage in Falmouth.Read more
Traveler I remember Nelson's Dockyard! It was at the end of the Island and the admiral's inn was the most expensive hotel on the island. lucky you!
11/24/23Reply
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Traveler Nomadic November
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- Nov 21, 2023
- ⛅ 29 °C
- Altitude: 7 m
- Antigua and Barbuda Parish of Saint Paul The Ordnance Land The Dockyard 17.008658, -61.76403317°0’31” N 61°45’51” W
Day 21
Boat Repairs
November 21, 2023 in Antigua and Barbuda ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Brain has started to feel really sick so we are still laying low and wearing masks whenever we are out around people. He went to the market for provisions and bought a new BBQ as the other one had a part that corroded and broke while he was cleaning it. He worked at securely attaching the new one.
Marshall finished up the glass work and Lennox came by to do the carpets but didn’t have the correct fitting so will come tomorrow early morning. The sails were also supposed to be dropped off this afternoon but they never arrived.
We went to immigration at 4pm and cleared customs to leave at 10am tomorrow.Read more
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- Dec 4, 2023, 9:21am
- 🌬 28 °C
- Altitude: 5 m
- Antigua and Barbuda Parish of Saint Paul The Ordnance Land The Dockyard 17.008429, -61.76449217°0’30” N 61°45’52” W
Day 34
Boat Drag
December 4, 2023 in Antigua and Barbuda ⋅ 🌬 28 °C
We got up and decided to head into town for a pastel and to get groceries. Got caught in a rain shower on the way… kinda fun. We meet Aubrey (who is setting up fresh produce at English harbour) and loaded up. We then walked to the North Sails loft to apologize to Andrew (but he wasn’t around, nor was Rahim). Off to Nelson’s Dockyard, sat and had a coffee at a little cafe, went to the grocery store and to a gift shop across from grocer where I bought soaps and other Christmas gift items…. We met Salty Dogs (Steve and Lynn from Roxy) who told us about a gathering at 5:30 tonight.
Back to the boat, but on the way stopped to say Hi to neighbors Lane and Judy from Vermont (Corsair) whom we invited over for drinks. They have a bench in front of there mast and seat on their wenches. We went for a swim and it looked like we were getting closer to reef so decided to check it out with handheld sonar on the dingy, indeed we were drifting and would have to move. We visited Muna and Fred Canadian boat from Chester on Isola Merida and went to Corsair to say we would have to move…. They had decided to go to the Salty Dog gathering in the evening.
When we lifted anchor there was a huge coral head on the tip. I was unable to get it off and it was hard on the boat moving forward. We hailed a large tender (from the super yacht Loon) and the two guys and a girl helped us remove the large chunk of coral — after several attempts it was gone.
We re-anchored further out and quickly headed into shore to go to the party. We chatted with Lane and Judy (and their crew Tim and Susan) for awhile at the party … and before at the dress shop where Judy was trying on clothes and Lane was telling us about Barbuda. He is the CEO of a large homeless organization in New Jersey.
I realized that I had to leave for my conference call with Toronto Detention Centre and we left (without paying for my coffee which we only remembered much later).
Got on the call… although my camera wouldn’t work for most of the time…. Good Orientation session by Norm.Read more
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