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Trip report - Dec-March
Hello all!
I've been put on notice that the fine folks at rec.boats.cruising have been concerned about the whereabouts of Flying Pig and crew. Well, not to worry. All of us are doing just fine. We've been hanging out at an anchorage close to Volleyball beach in George Town. We haven't done any sailing nor have be gone anywhere for about three months. We are busy working on Flying Pig as usual fixing one thing after another that breaks unexpectedly. We are likely to be here for a long, long time as spare parts all have to be imported with a hefty import duty. Plus, the mail is not the most reliable thing around here either and I think some of the stuff gets re-directed to some needy local for his own boat. Lydia is doing fine and is in Hog Heaven. She spends her days putzing around with a handful of other cruising wives and they gossip and cook and shop and work on their tans. Some of them even manage to stay somewhat sober while doing so but not my Lydia. She's awfully fond of her rum, ya know. And rum is one thing that's cheap around here. I don't mind her staying sloshed, though, because then it's pretty easy to convince her how great a lover I am. Speaking of cheap, WOW! Don't even think about buying diesel here. It's anything BUT cheap! Try seven dollars a gallon. I think I'm going to have to learn how to sail into and out of the harbor as it costs too much to motor like I used to do all the time in the States. Speaking of that, we were sailing out of Elizabeth Harbor the other day for an afternoon sail and, as usual, Lydia went on the wrong side of a channel post and there we were again, hard aground. We did listen to Wilbur Hubbard this time though and departed on slack low water so we only had to wait about a half hour for the incoming tide to lift us off. I always thought Wilbur was something of an ass but now that I've started taking his advice I have to admit that sailing goes a lot smoother. Sometimes we can go for an afternoon sail and not have but five or six things go wrong instead of the usual dozen or so. Like the other day. We went sailing and I forgot that I had taken down the forestay to repair the roller furling. When I yanked the mainsail up and the wind filled it, down came the mainmast. So we had to tie it alongside and use the motor. But it wouldn't start. I traced the problem to a corroded ground connection which I fixed but it still wouldn't start. So I then traced it to a bad battery. So I switched it out for one of the house batteries and it started. But then it quit again. I traced this to a clogged fuel filter which I changed out and it ran long enough to get us back to our anchorage in the cove by Volleyball beach. But we had to stop twice to unwind mast halyards from the propeller. Well, anyway, friends, fear not. Flying Pig and crew are pursuing our dream. We never really were cruising sailors so we don't mind admitting we'll probably be in George Town for years. We might even buy a house as we finally realized we will always be lubbers at heart. L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however." (and) "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts." (Richard Bach, in The Reluctant Messiah) |
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