September to November 2014

September to November 2014

This hurricane season the weather has been kind with 40knot plus winds only a couple of times in 4 months and no hurricanes touching Grenada.

We have repeated most of the activities of the last three years with a couple of exceptions.

The best Rum Bar on the Island “Nimrod's” run by Sep (Septimus) has been host to Country Dave's Sundowner Sessions. Dave from Pavane has worked hard to build up a following. There have been good, better and brilliant nights with many accomplished musicians joining Dave and playing their own sets. (some have even been professionals! ) Notably Peter from Too Much Fun, Wiley from Harmony, Troy from Storyville, Matt from Luludu and Paul from Amanda.

Trudy has been noodling most weekdays and taking a Spannish course provided by the Venasuelan embassy. Afternoons on the boat include spannish recitals, Guitar practice and some interesting sounds from Trudy's Ukelele.

We have continued to try out new fruits and vegitables and enjoying the deliciously creamy avocado pears, sugar apples and mangoes in their seasons.

We are still in the process of completing pre season maintenance with only a couple of parts still on back order.

At the latest dinghy concert we were kindly shadowed from the band by a dinghy with a huge umberella.

The “old” marina in Clarkes Court bay has been flattened. A new marina is being built and the builders have been blasting out the hillside and moving earth into the bay reclaiming land.

The mangroves have been removed but it is believed that they will be replaced when work has been completed. This marina will be able to cope with 150ft plus boats and will have the largest capacity haul out in the Eastern Caribbean. We hope that this will not change the laid back way of life in the bay and surrounding village of Woburn.

The girls (and a couple of brave boys) go noodling most weekdays. It depends on wind and weather.

Julie from “The Flying Buzzard” has been extremely kind collecting girls from around the bay on her dinghy (the Noodle bus) taking charge of the noodling and delivering everyone back to their boats.

Rogers Beach bar has a stage that is slowly tipping into the water. Playing here on a full moon when the tides are high you get your feet wet!

Calabash grow on trees. The shells are painted and varnished to be used as interesting bowls.

A few photos of Whisper Cove marina.

Jam sessions were held here weekly until the end of the season (october/november) when the braver yachts start moving north into the hurricane zone.

Clarkes Court bay is mostly quiet and tranquil with music occasionally heard from the shore.

Trudy still enjoys hairing around with the dinghy at full throttle.

Manureva on a washing day. She has been a great boat but it is time to move on so were are preparing her for sale. This may be a long process but we will enjoy sailing up and down the islands on the east Caribbean until she sells.

The Carrenage so called because ith is a shallow bay where ships used to drop anchor, wait for the tide to go out and clean (careen) the bottom of them.

St Georges is built around a couple of bays and up the hilside with lots of steep and narrow streets.

The tipical weather this season has been scorching hot days with no wind mixed with large, unforcast, winds together with vast qualtities of rain. If the wind slows down we are able to catch it and put it in our tanks, however if the wind stays high it just washes the decks!

We had a hole appear in our dinghy. They are always going flat but it usually takes a couple of weeks. This time it was flat in a couple of hours. The glue we buy says it works best with humidity under 25%! We live in a bout 90%! Anyway dinghy was lifted upside down on our trampoline and glues and left for 4 days to cure. Susan and John from Toi et Moi very kindly lent us their old wooden tender which proved very useful. (better than swimming to the bar).