Monday, January 31, 2011
I had planned on walking around Gustavia and revisiting the airport for some pictures that day and our two boats motored to Gustavia and anchored in the outer harbor in the morning hours. I cleared out and Arita cleared in & out and we had a small breakfast with coffee and croissants and Rob paid the bill before I did and I think he only narrowly escaped having a coronary; the prices in St. Barths are evidently at the upper end of the scale; but we did have some excellent Fiji water and coffee. After Rob had arranged the second mortgage and indentured servitude of his next male born child with the restaurant owners, we took off on our wanderings and I set up my camera and tripod at the roundabout over the St. Barths airport in preparation for taking a video of an aircraft coming in on final and landing. After our return to Gustavia via the old cemetery with its myriad of bright and colorful (and plastic) flowers we returned to our boats and I intended on returning to Colombier immediately as the anchorage outside of Gustavia is quite uncomfortable in the swell, but the large catamaran anchored behind me turned out to be Palarran and belongs to David, a fellow sailing forum member on the internet. After getting a grand tour of the huge catamaran I returned to my boat, motored to Colombier and set about getting my outboard and dinghy aboard. By the time that was done the sun was setting and I had a tasty dinner with the rest of my baguette and managed to finish my book in wee hours of the night. I remember thinking to myself that my batteries would be charged by the morning as I could hear my wind generator buzzing away all the time, but when I looked outside I realized that there wasn’t a great amount of wind but that the boat anchored about 100 feet downwind of me had an Air-X Marine wind generator on board, which was doing a fine job of keeping up their reputation as the loudest wind generator on the market.
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