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CW 17 2002
21.04.2002 - 30.04.2002
These pictures are a late delivery on our arrival in Store Bay and yesterdays sunset.
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This is Sunday, April 21, and the new week, the new day, start rather early
for us. We spent the night anchoring in Store Bay / Tobago and from here we'll
sail straight to Trinidad. The anchor is weighed at a quarter past six and
course is set for Trinidad. Goodbye Tobago!
For the first few metres we still need the engine, but less than an hour later
the main and foresail are set and we're cruising with 4-5 knots.
This, today, is sailing at its best!
The main sail is reefed so we can open it further and the wind is coming from
120°. Looking at the log, I think that the GPS is malfunctioning again,
but I'm wrong. 9.8 knots speed!!! That's just like flying. WOW!
But not only the speed is "wow", what we already saw this morning
is one of the things one has to have seen to believe, because usually one
only knows them from movies.
A dolphin. Just one, but it jumps a few metres out of the water, repeatedly!
Unbelievably beautiful! Seeing that makes up for us loosing another fish right
off the hook. But that's not the only one; altogether we loose three fish
and two baits. We're obviously too fast for fishing today. Well, everything
has its pros and cons.
Nevertheless, it's a beautiful sailing-day and we make good progress.
On our way we test the work and the corrections done on the rig, so we change
directions a couple of times, in order to be able to sail before the wind,
bringing the sails really close. Unfortunately there's still a lot of movement
and the rigger will have plenty to do while SILVER BLUE is in the wharf. The
masts movement is a lot better; it's almost gone. And that's already something,
isn't it? Around noon we drop the foresail, only using the mainsail. The wind
turned and now the mainsail is covering too much of the foresail, which therefore
only hangs there limply, so we drop it. We sail like that for an hour, then
we can bring the foresail out again and at times we even sail a butterfly.
We arrive at Trinidad, Scotland Bay, after a good 10 hours and are ship Nr.
22. Once again, there's a lot going on here, but the later it gets, the emptier
it gets. Also, 20 ships aren't a problem here since the bay is widespread.
Since our last, short stay here a few things have changed and one does notice
that the rainy season is slowly approaching. Trees, flowering yellow shine
in the hills all around. What hasn't changed, are the howling monkeys! There
have to be whole packs, judging from the sounds coming from the forest. It
really is funny to listen to them, and it's a nice ending to a nice day.
Monday starts relaxed since we don't have far to go, just around the corner
and then we'll stay at the Crews Inn Marina again.
At 9.30am we're on our way and as we leave Scotland Bay Gerda and Franc arrive
in their catamaran "Silver", so we continue towards Chagurarams
Bay together.
At 10.30am we've moored alongside the Crews Inn.
That was the cruise before the last, before SILVER BLUE has to come out of
the water.
Until then there's still plenty to do, to find out, to organize, and, and,
and.
Therefore there won't be much to report about this week, since we only have
plans for work.
There are a few things to tell about Sunday, April 28, and there are a few
pictures.
We take a trip to Manzanilla Beach on the East coast.
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White sand for kilometres on end and a palm tree forest just a long.
A beach from paradise! But that's not all: as soon as you stand on the sand, a pile of seashells forms around your feet, washed ashore by the Atlantic. |
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| It would be worth spending a whole day here, but we only left rather late and it's a good two hours drive; quite a way. So we don't stay long. We take the coastal road, right through the palm tree forest, then westwards towards San Fernando before we drive up to Port of Spain and Chaguaramas. | ||||
Monday, and the countdown is on! Two more days until we go into the wharf
and three days until our flight back home.
We won't be aboard from May 1 until the end of June and can therefore only
be contacted via our Aol-email-adress KatSilverBlue@aol.com.
Well, so we'll get everything ready for our departure and the wharf.
Tuesday, April 30, and the alarm clock goes off at 6am. Just before 7am we've
unfastened the lines and are leaving Crews Inn. We, more or less, turn 2 corners
and are already awaited by a few men from the Aikane wharf.
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We have to leave this early because of the tide, since we can only leave
at high tide and today that's either early in the morning or at 6.30 in
the evening - and then it's already dark, and, apart from that, nobody
is working at that time any more. We reach the bay we'll be slipped in at 7.30am and everything is ready for us. That small blue thing you can see on the picture takes us out of the water. The men from the wharf drive the slip under the ship, tie SILVER BLUE down thoroughly and off we go. Slowly we get pulled out and are on dry land soon. Now all we have to do is cross the main road and we're at out destination, and it's time for us to say "see you soon". We hop to see you here again in two months, when we have more to tell about SILVER BLUE, Diana + Thomas. |
Until then, have a good time, take care, and, see you!
