Floating again!
We went back in the water on Monday, it’s very nice to be afloat again but we’re tired of being in the lagoon here where, whilst access to services is great, it feels trapped and crowded. We’re heading out today to anchor in the bay, then off to Saba in the morning to continue voyaging. […]
Scraping, painting and getting by ashore
The boat yard is right next to Sint Maarten’s airport, a major destination for the holiday visitors. Planes of all shapes and sizes land and take off all day. The big jets lift off about a hundred yards from us with a deafening roar. When landing, they have already slowed down before they come past […]
Like a fish out of water
It’s time for Ty Dewi to get some ‘below the waterline’ attention. After more than a year in the water, covering some 6000 miles in seas cold and warm, rough and smooth, she’s ready for a good clean and some new paint. We book into a local boatyard for a few days ashore. Lifting thirteen […]
Maxism
We’re staying in a boatyard right now to paint the boat. It has showers, which is useful after a hard days scraping old paint. And for Max, a hard day playing in the dirt. He and I go into the shower block, which is the only one for everyone in the yard. Both shower stall […]
Less teeth!
Issie lost another tooth recently, adding to the list of different currencies that the tooth fairy has had to get from the Fairyland bureau d’exchange. Then the other day Max pipes up and says ‘I’ve got a wobbly tooth’. ‘Yeh, yeh, Max, just pretending to be like your sister again, eh?’. ‘No, Daddy, really, look’. […]
Recent photos
Some recent photos, being: St Bart’s Sunset Issie dancing on deck Kids drying off after having a ‘shower’ in a rain storm Max ‘fishing’ with a handy rope
Great delight in the Ward family
Yesterday we heard about a kid’s club here in St Maarten. Today it was all arranged and the kids got to go and spend six hours in a couple of small rooms filled with toys and a few other children. They were very excited. But not as much as we were! We have just had […]
Stress in St Martin!
So this is the get away from it all, carefree cruising lifestyle, hanging out in beautiful places enjoying the tropical sun and testing rum punches up and down the length of the island chain. In which case, why have we been hunkered down on the boat for four days, buffeted by near gale force winds […]
A day in the life – Part II
If you remember, we are nearing St Barts after a long trip from St Kitts, a big fish on board, Max and Gesa a bit sea-sick, Issie still reading her books in the aft cabin…… At one point I can clearly see six islands, Nevis, St Kitts, Statia, Saba, St Barts and Sint Maarten. It’s […]
A day in the life – on the move – Part I
It’s been a while since we did one of our ‘day in the life’ series and since we get a good reaction to them, here’s another. This time, I’ve picked an action packed day when we made the passage from St Kitts to St Barts. It’s a fifty mile trip, a long one for us […]