In Good Spirits

Now that a few more days have passed  our problems seem like nothing in the grand scheme of things.  Harley was able to fix our windless motor and the parts for the rudder have arrived.  Things are looking brighter.  We have discovered that Folly, along with just about every boat, responds well to having lots of money spent on her.

On a more sobering note, this past week a sail boat with two on board ran into a reef just off of Emerald Bay Marina.  It was after dark, the boat lost it's keel on impact, and the boat sank.  Their West  Marine life raft would not deploy and the two had to swim two miles to shore. These poor people lost everything!  They literally were left with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

Here in Georgetown is a wonderful community of cruisers and immediately donations came in and some people with dive tanks were able to retrieve their passports and important documents ect. from the wreckage.  Gosh, I can't imagine how traumatic this was for them.  And these were seasoned sailors with seventeen Atlantic crossings under their belts!   After hearing this story, and the fact that it happened right here in our community, makes us feel sad but fortunate as it could happen to any of us.

So here we are tied to a mooring ball in "hole 2".  We got the last mooring available  (another blessing) so we have a nice calm spot to to do our repairs, but besides that we have super fun neighbors in here!  Last night we were invited to a party on one of the boats and we had the BEST TIME EVER!  Two very fun and talented musicians were there and we all sang our hearts out and laughed until we cried.  Good times!   We better not get too comfortable here or we may never leave.  Hahaha.

The weather has improved as well lifting our spirits.  However, having said that, everyone is preparing for the next blow expected to arrive on Monday.  Thankfully we are in this well protected bay nicknamed  "The Hurricane Hole" so we should be nice and safe.  *big sigh*  It's a good feeling.  Most of the boats have moved today to find shelter but this is nothing new around here.  They call it the "Georgetown Shuffle "

Next week we will work on our rudder.   I'm not expecting it to be an easy fix so I'm  sure there'll be much to tell...but...

More about that. ...next time.

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This is how we've been filling in our spare time between fixing things.....

We found these ruins on Crab Cay

Along with a dead Crab

And a ship wreck

There were very old ruins mixed in with the new ruins.

It would have been a beautiful resort.  As the story goes, it was owned by some wealthy pig farmers from Iowa and it was coming along nicely until the stock market crashed in 2008.  Don't quote me though.  This was the story we were told from someone on the beach.

We also said goodbye to Ken and Grace on Pisces as they sail further south.  Their goal is to reach Grenada by June.

Fair winds and safe harbours to you!