We are on the water, it floats, One small leak on the exhaust hose, but we are good. Wasn’t much of a shake down, but we did pull out the jib on our motor sail over to the underwater sculpture garden.

Long day, long long day. We thought we did a lot work to get the boat ready for splash, we did and we finally made it to the water. A quick trip to the grocery afterwards and we are now stocked with food an beverages for a while. Only a few beers so we will definitely need more soon. IGA in St. Georges has just about everything you need, except for eggs. Eggs? Really, seems everyone is stocking up for xmas. I’m not sure what eggs have to do with xmas, but Boney our wonderful taxi driver hooked us up. After waking him up and saying we were finally ready for a trip to the supermarket, he came and picked us up at the marina. He had another trip coming in at the airport in a few hours. Sounded like no big deal. It takes about an hour to get to the grocery store, and of course we are not quick when grabbing grub for a couple of weeks, but we did it as fast as we could, even sent Wayne to get gas for the dingy while we stock pilled as many pringles as could be loaded in a shopping cart. We then got to the eggs, not on in the store. Can’t make breakfast tacos without eggs. Pancakes for weeks? Enter Boney. On the ride back to the marina, he called the farm, where he used to work, they didn’t answer. He called another lady on top of the hill, and yup she had eggs, fresh ones. Quick detour and we scored a ‘flat’ of eggs. Breakfast will be served.

Raced back to the marina, so Boney could get his next guests and 2 trips in the dingy loaded with provisions and returning with more cash as we didn’t bring enough to pay Boney. All is good, took longer than expected but Christine was able to pacify Boney and also order us dinner at the bar that closed 2 mins before we go there. A cold cheese burger in paradise is still a burger in paradise.

Back to the boat for heated game of dominos on the lovely table while Christine took an early trip to bed.

Up early and raised sail around 7am. Slow start going around some rocks, er small islands and between some reefs, but all was well. Short changed the canvas that was up today, started with one reef in the main and full jib as there were some gusts, but really we should have had a full main. But we were making reasonable time in 14-15 knots of wind that we should easily clear customs by 3:30pm. We averaged about 7 knots all day, and cleared customs at 1pm and proceeded to pout. Well hide from the sun, its hot. Cool breeze but the sun is hot.

Made some texican breakfast tacos along the way, chilled out mainly on a beam reach, wind about 72 degrees to port, max speed 12knots on the GPS, average up to 7.5 at one point, but when we turned down wind it got hot even tho we were still doing 7 knots and in no hurry.

Had some snacks after clearing customs and then proceeded to hide from the sun. Christine worked inside the boat organizing, de-cluttering and getting rid of stuff we will never use. Wayne and I hid and had a few beers. As the sun started going down we dropped the jib, untied/tangled the main sail, its ready to drop on deck, the reefing lines are drawn, the mast cars are disconnected, the only thing holding the sail on is the lazy jacks and sail bag.

Pretty much ready for the haul out in the morning, when we’ll start the washing and cleaning / stowing of gear till the next trip down here.

Cooked some jerk wings for snacks tomorrow and some of our left over tuna for dinner. Tried the steaks on the grill, was okay but none of us was that hungry, so we finished off the ice cream instead.