A lot has happened since my last post (well that was my first post on this blog). The boat was launched to our relief but the work and the problems continued. I don't want to be a Debbie Downer so I won't mention anymore on that subject. But needless to say we eventually managed to leave Nanny Cay and headed around to Sopers Hole. We have many great memories of Sopers Hole from our last visit there 3 years ago and with that at the back of our thoughts we picked up a mooring buoy and proceeded to have a very nice time meeting other "yachties" and locals alike. Well, the nice time lasted until the starter motor in Bob's own words "crapped out".
When we sat there with our head in our hands and reminisced about what it cost to get the engine looked at during the refit we were slightly less than happy about it. So once again we contacted the engineer on the phone and after a brief discussion we asked him to find a new starter motor and install that rather than bench testing the misbehaving one and cobbling together a fix on it. Anyway, yet another $1000+ went kicking and screaming into someone else's bank account, grrrr.
That's enough about the boat, what happened to the cat I hear you ask. Well, during the work on the boat the cat was unhappy with the workmen and tried to get into all sorts of impossible spaces to get away from them.
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| Mr B |
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| I left a cupboard open and in he scampered. |
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| Mr B in the forepeak chuck in locker. |
He also ran into problems with the heat and the fumes that sometimes permeated around the yacht from the paint. The only solution we had was to take him off the boat and take him to, yes you've guessed it, the beach.
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| Me negotiating a little bridge coming back from the beach. |
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| Mr B is in the cat carrier. |
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| Thank goodness we purchased a trolley, he's too heavy to carry any distance in the carrier. |
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Home again.
I have to say that he quite enjoyed his time sat at the beach, watching the water and the people splashing about in it. We also enjoyed the odd coffee or two (or three) we supped whilst relaxing with him. |
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| I LOVE THIS PHOTO OF MR B. |
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| Coffee makes us happy. |
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| Mr B chilling on his sun lounger. |
I think that you've had enough of me babbling on for now. More catch ups to follow and maybe I'll throw in the odd teaser video from the sailing we did to get to (dah dah daaahhhhh) Bermuda.
Keep Well.
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| Cheers =^-^= |
