Early
I slept well at anchor, although I’d had a tad too much to drink at Happy Hour the night before and compounded that error by not eating a full dinner. But the hangover was very mild and gone after my first coffee and business meetings.
I’d not cleaned up the boat after the passage and certainly not prepared my forward guest cabin for a guest. John was scheduled to arrive sometime in the mid- to late afternoon and I had a bit of work to do once the home-office phase of the day was over
Lunch
There was a lot of light salt spray from the hatches that I’d not secured properly prior to departing on the passage from Sint Maarten. That had to be cleaned up first. Then I threw all the junk I’d collected in the guest cabin all the way forward. Once the cabin was in a semi-presentable state, I got out the freshly laundered sheets and towels and made up the bed, locating some pillows to go inside the cleaned pillowcases.
I’d transported some heavy air-conditioning pumps from Sint Maarten for a boat here in Antigua and delivered those to the Catamaran Club docks for pickup. That only took 10 minutes to get there, drop off the 2 pumps, then return to the boat. There’s no enforced speed limit here in Falmouth!
Afternoon
I did a provisional installation of the solar panels forward, then finally unpacked the laundry that I’d had done and stowed it all in the storage locations in my aft cabin. I’ve really got to get started with all of my maintenance tasks; but with John aboard some of those are going to go a lot faster – particularly all the overhead panels.
John should have been here around 15:00, but it is now 16:00 and he’s not called or e-mailed. I’m debating going ashore to see if he’s there but not able to communicate. Perhaps in a half hour.
Ashore
John messaged me just before I was going to go ashore, I went into Skullduggery and we transferred his items aboard Zanshin and I showed him the sights (where the light switches were, how the head works, where to stow stuff, etc.).
Then we went ashore for happy hour and ended up going to Trappas for a tasty dinner. It was a full moon, but I’d not gotten my camera set up correctly for it. Everyone with a smartphone probably got better shots than I did!