The new radar arch, Archie, for the solar panels.
It’s surprising the rut you can get into when you live in a home that moves, and yet you have basically stayed in the same place for weeks longer than you wanted to.
It’s called getting stuck.
Well, let’s be fair – not ‘stuck’ as in the way that some of the tradespeople are, who sail into this lagoon broke and looking for work, and suddenly nine years pass. Some of that is by choice, of course. There are worse places to be, after all.
But as our new friend Andy, a marine electronics expert from the U.K., says, there are also better places to be.
Touché.
We are days from departing St. Maarten. Maybe three? And we are slowly prepping the boat.
- The arch is on (Archie), supporting our new functioning solar panels.
- The new life raft frame is mounted off Archie’s starboard side.
- We’ve rented a car for a day and provisioned.
- The new Raymarine chart plotter (Ray, of course), is in and being wired up as I write this.
One more day to finish up Ray and do a major sort out. One day to get off the dock and clean the hull. One day to rest (I hope, I hope, I hope) while some weather passes south of us.
And then we is outs of here, bruv. Tots outs.*
*Can a Montrealer do Ali G?