Saturday, August 4th, Tobago
Early this week, the models indicated that the next tropical depression/storm/hurricane might pass right through Grenada.
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Route Recap: July
Monday, July 30 : to Port Louis Marina, St. George’s, Grenada (map)
We motored some and sailed some down the east coast of Grenada to the main port, where we took a slip in the fancy Port Louis Marina. (We plan to stay here until Wednesday, August 1st.)
Andy arrives!
Friday, July 27th, 2012, St. George’s, Grenada
Andy, our first visitor from San Francisco, arrived.
Oil Down
Hog Island, Grenada, July 24th, 2012
Oil down is the national dish in Grenada. (There is a recipe on the official government website: http://www.gov.gd/articles/grenada_oil_down.html. However, don’t follow this recipe; it hasn’t been tested: the chicken was left out.) Key ingredients are salted meat, coconut milk, chicken, callaloo (rather like spinach), and breadfruit and other provisions such as dasheen and plantains.
Hobie Cat races at Le Phare Bleu Yacht Club
Saturday, July 21st at Petite Calivigny Bay, Grenada
The Phare Bleu yacht club hosted a day of Hobie Cat races at the marina. Although Pete had never been on a Hobie Cat before, he signed up to race. After all, he races monohulls and he sails a catamaran — no problem, right?
#4 Bergamot Scones
An occasional series of practical recipes to cook aboard using the ingredients at hand.
BERGAMOT SCONES
B is for Beverly
Petit Calivigny Bay, Grenada, July 8 to 15, 2012
Many of you enjoyed our early post about out first boat pet, Arthur. (See Our day with Arthur, the tiny octopus.)
This post is about our second boat pet Beverly, a Grenadian gecko. (I decided that our boat pets should be named sequentially, A, B, C, etc.) Continue reading
Socialization for Phase 3
So far, I’ve divided the adventure into three phases:
- Phase 1 (April to mid-May) : Preparing us and the boat to leave Fort Lauderdale.
- Phase 2 (mid-May to July 9th) : Sailing the boat from Fort Lauderdale to Grenada. Grenada was a big destination because while we were north of Grenada, the boat was not insured against named storms (like Alberto, Beryl, Chris, and Debby).
- Phase 3 (now until TBD) : Working on the boat in Grenada and Trinidad. We’re in the second round of repairs and maintenance, fixing and improving things that we discovered during our 2700 miles of sailing in phase 2.
New heads
The electric heads (marine toilets) in the boat had a serious (and disgusting) design flaw. Tony wrote them this email:
Dear Jabsco,
I have three 58500-0012 electric toilets (foot switch) installed in my boat. Two of them have a tendency (not to put too fine a point on it) to splatter macerated shit up and out of the bowl. This is an undesirable feature in a marine head. As there are no obviously adjustable parts, I am at a loss. What would you suggest?
Pilgrimage to Pork
Puerto Rico, Father’s Day 2012
My friend Wren mentioned that her Laura’s birthday celebration included whole roast pig. This got me thinking that there are a good many blog readers who are partial to some nicely cooked pork and who might enjoy photos of Peter, Paul and Tony’s pilgrimage to eat pork in the famous lechonera La Ranchera the mountains of Puerto Rico. Gayle went along as the designated driver; she ate roast chicken.