lundi 21 septembre 2009

10°40.89N 61°38.041W at 1100 160508



Waiting, waiting, waiting... and waiting some more. We rented a car yesterday and drove across Trinidad to a postcard like beach: long smooth sand, palm trees, the reef far out, small waves on the beach..., bought a bag of mangos that were the best I’ve ever tasted, ate terrible hamburgers in a very funky roadside shack, and got home late. I expected to find NAOMI sunk or gone or in cinders but she was still there bobbing in her slip waiting, waiting just like us. Modern times permit us to «track» our Fedex shipment so we can wait with information, but it doesn’t reduce the stress. News from up north is that the very deep low I’ve been tracking (doing some tracking myself) hit Bermuda and a lot of big boats lost rigs. We weren’t planning on being anywhere near there, but that was the low I was hoping to use to mess up the Bermuda high and get us across lower down. The boys have been great. Juha and Esa are working their ass off to make our life easier and exciting at the same time. Just got back from customs at Crewsend, putted over in our zodiac and got the pieces that we finally tracked using the conventional telephone method. So tomorrow I hope to get this boat back under power. The sky is black with the first clouds of our stay, and rain. We must be catching the tail end of the front that hit Bermuda yesterday.