Thanksgiving
Day, Prickly Bay Grenada
We hope
that everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving has a good feast with friends and
family. We will enjoy a Thanksgiving
meal at a local restaurant, along with other itinerant souls.
David has
been working hard at getting all of our sun-worn teak window frames and
companion way frame sanded and varnished.
This is a multi-step and multi-day process, with sticky surfaces that
are hard to avoid as we try to continue other work on the boat while the
varnish dries. I have been working hard
at showing him the spots he’s missed.
Today we
hope to get our new battery bank installed, install new thermostats on the wind
generator and perhaps put on the foresails (if the wind cooperates), and tidy
up below decks. All the cushions and
mattresses are topsy turvy while we wait for the batteries, since they reside
under one of the benches in the saloon and the hardware associated with them is
on the bed in the foreward berth. I hope
to add a before and after photo to the blog…
Friday we
will work on what we don’t get done today, plus make one of the big
provisioning trips to the grocery store.
This will be the trip for everything that doesn’t need refrigeration…including
things like garbage bags, TP, paper towels.
Pasta, rice, dried beans, onions, potatoes, squash, canned goods (mostly
tomatoes), pickles, condiments, and of course, stocking the bar…
Our
refrigeration works by using brass plates under the boat to transfer heat, so
stocking the fridge and freezer has to wait until at least Monday afternoon or
Tuesday next week.
More later!
