Morning coffee was followed by pancakes and a snorkel that was cut short by thunder and lightening. However we did see huge schools of bait fish, tarpon, stingrays and many, many sea turtles. On the way back to the boat all I could see was little bird feet in the water at one point so I headed for them thinking they would scurry off quickly but they didn’t! I literally could have touched the seagull that didn’t give a care in the world if I was looking at him through my mask half covered in hair and talking sweetly through my snorkel. Bird must have been like, “humans be so weird”…
After drying off I told Jim that with the imminent weather headed our way for the day he should work on fixing the gen set and get it right. So he did! lol Wiring was backwards on the pump so he rewired and voila! Funny because even though it rained most of the day we never did use it while closed up. It was comfortable. Besides with all of the lightning in our vicinity we turned of all of the electronics to play it safe and not fry it on the first trip. Had that happen in an airplane once. Clear air lightening struck us on the nose and fried all instruments while heading to inclement weather. Good o’l days..
After looking at radar we saw a little break in the tropical wave that was passing through and tossed the line off the mooring in Cinnamon bay and headed to Red Hook, St. Thomas to provision diesel and water so we wouldn’t have to worry about it for the next 6 days. We were in and out other than having to wait for about 15 circling in the channel for our turn. Busy little harbor with the ferries and charter boats, with little maneuvering room due to moored boats and shallow water. Great for dusting off the boat handling skills (if I don’t say so myself ;))… lol funny, because as we nosed into the dock and I kicked the bow over, there was a gorgeous 60 ft spoon bow custom sport fisher tied up adjacent and the Capt said to Jim.. “you better hang on to her, she’s a keeper”. I mean, would I SAY THAT TOO A MAN if he smoothly docked the boat??? growl. “YO girl, He’s a keeper, better hang on to him”. hahahah barf! Our rolls respectively on the boat are: I’m the driver, chef, maid and day planner, Jim is the pay for it, fix it and keep us safe, Savannah is the watchful eye over the two of us! Good team. :))
We were hoping to head to Leinster Bay on St. John after fuel and water stop but we were racing Mother Nature and she was winning, so we pulled in and grabbed the same mooring we left earlier at high speed, ducking for the lightening. Very electrical storm, but the rain was MUCH needed islands wide.
We were socked in most of the day. Savannah napped, I made jewelry (which by the way if you all love this blog feel free to purchase or make donations so we can keep writing about our adventures!!!! :))) I’ll add the link below ;). Jim tinkered around the boat and shook his head at the 4inch manual vs. the actual systems, some of them didn’t quite add up. Regardless, the Grand Soleil 46LC is a phenomenal boat. We love her more everyday! He’s pretty mechanically inclined so glad he had a chance to look it over on this rainy day. FYI..
Weather eased up around sunset and let me tell you it was one for the books. We’ve seen some pretty sunsets in our life, but nothing compared to this. Sunsets on one side, deer roaming the beach on the other side, our two drink allotment and dinner on the stove. Left over gnocchi and cheese sauce over multi grain rice, added mushrooms and broccoli.. it was ok.. but a perfect dinner snack after a big lunch of huge sandwiches on pretzel bread. yum!
We slept with a still night but very cool and comfy air temps. Sure the generator works but you’d have to give me some pretty gnarly, night weather to actually turn on the AC while out on a mooring or at anchor. I do keep a 12 volt fan blowing 2 inches away from my face while sleeping lol
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