Friday, May 21, 2010
Another day in paradise, I slept well and long with hardly a hangover from my gambrinous condition of last night (perhaps the completely closed shades and running A/C helped). I got a late start but did good work below decks as I didn’t want to go outside into the sun and heat at the docks until the mid or late afternoon when things cooled down a bit; although I did get the genoa sail down onto the deck during a lull in the wind – which picked up again just as I’d gotten the sail extended and was trying to pull it in; I was worried that it would fill and pull the boat into my dock side neighbour, the Grand Soleil 54, and mess up their deck painting work. Fortunately, one of them ran over to assist me and we quickly got the job finished.
Somewhat later I went outside to get the sail onto the dock and flake it and 3 people who were walking by on the docks came over to assist me and we made very short order of the work and I asked if they would accept the two bottles of extra dry sparkling wine that I still had in my fridge. They accepted on the condition that I assist them in drinking it so we headed over to their charter boat, the “Bonjour Matelot”, and proceeded to drink it. Somehow the afternoon went by quickly with Lisa, Michael and Phil and my reserve stocks of Stella Artois disappeared quickly. Several drinks and hours later, we all headed off on the Saba Rock ferry to have dinner there instead of participating in the big BBQ event at Leverick. Several people came by along the docks with whom we spoke and the sleek Grand Soleil went to the fuel dock but had a seized fuel cap which we attempted, with no success, to get open – it resisted both the magic effects of my PB-Blaster penetrating oil and the combined strength of 3 people and a long lever arm.
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