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December 19, 2005
Happy Holidays
Holy cow!
Hard to believe the Holidays are upon us.
Last year, December 4th, we threw our Bon Voyage party at my sister, Jane's house.
And December 10th, we left for a week of intense sailing courses in the Virgin Islands.
And December 22nd, we left Canada to spend Christmas in London with Chis' twin, Eliz, daughters Madeleine and Georgiana, and other sister Trish. Then New Years with Jim & Luc in Paris. Then on to La Rochelle, France to pick up Platina.
Wow! A little Atlantic crossing, the Caribbean, the US east coast, then back into the Bahamas. 9,300 nautical miles, and counting!
It is raining, windy and a storm threatens tonight and tomorrow. It ain't snow, and we ain't shovelin'. We plan to leave on the tail of a cold front to sail south the Georgetown. There we will spend Christmas.
While in Marsh Harbour this week, we trailed 600 tiny multi-coloured Christmas lights up to the top of the mast. I plugged them in to a cheap Radio Shack 12-volt DC transfomer. We can't just plug them in on the boat, because Platina is wired 220-volt, not the North American standard 110-volt. Nothing is easy when you live on a boat. We turned on some Christmas music and enjoyed the lights. Many of the boats in the harbour had done the same.
Ours lasted about 10 minutes. I blew the fuse on the transformer. Trying to find a replacement fuse in the Bahamas is like trying to send an overloaded canoe out to sea. It just isn't going to happen.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE. HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
Posted by dave at December 19, 2005 06:57 PM