{"id":1302,"date":"2017-12-11T21:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T21:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2017-12-11T21:50:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T21:50:54","slug":"random-thoughts-while-stranded-and-somewhat-bored-in-jolly-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/2017\/12\/random-thoughts-while-stranded-and-somewhat-bored-in-jolly-harbour\/","title":{"rendered":"Random thoughts while stranded (and somewhat bored) in Jolly Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"

People are clamoring for an update. There’s not much, really. We’re still stranded at the work dock in Jolly Harbour. It’s actually not too bad. What’s frustrating though is not the daily noise of all kinds of engines, nor the bottom paint dust that ruined an entire week of Kathy’s waxing and polishing \u00d1and\u00fa’s deck, back in Virginia. It’s not the nauseating smell of burnt garbage from the landfill upwind of us (we seem to be downwind of all the bad things around here). It’s neither the fact that alternator brackets seem to break deliberately before thanksgiving so that our wait-for-parts routine gets extended by several days, nor that I had to remove and reinstall an alternator to change a bracket for, I believe, the fifteenth time. It’s also not the fact that the starboard engine had to be removed and completely disassembled for an overhaul. After all, we’re floating, we have a nice view that includes water and sailboat races, people are friendly, the temperature (and the flies) receded after the breeze came back, the second mate left, [Wait! No, that shouldn’t be part of this sentence!] at a walking distance we have a well-provisioned marine store and the best grocery store we’ve seen east of 80\u00b0W, and lastly, our to-do list of boat tasks shrank to an historical low thanks to so much time with nothing else to do.\u00a0 The really frustrating part is that it’s been six months since we last anchored by a secluded\u00a0tropical beach, and after sailing thousands of miles we’re so close\u2014a mere two miles\u2014to being back to that… yet so seemingly far.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, here’s a few random thoughts an pictures.<\/p>\n

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The evolution of the (upper) bracket. Version 1: not shown. Version 2: broken, piece missing. Version 3: the surviving specimen of the pair. Version 4: supposedly indestructible, broken before reaching Antigua. Version 5: the MEGA BRACKET, untested so far. (The evolution of the lower bracket is here<\/a>.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not a fruit.\u00a0<\/strong>“What is that fruit?” I asked the street vendor. “It’s not a fruit, it’s a vegetable,” he replied categorically. “Not a fruit, huh?” “No, you have to cook it.” “How do you call it?” “Bread fruit.”<\/p>\n

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Jolly Harbour Marina (not where we are)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tape is our new nemesis.<\/strong> I found the reason why we didn’t hear the overheating alarm: the buzzer had been muffled with masking tape (and not by any of us). And we got the diesel tanks emptied and cleaned in an attempt to solve the fuel blockage issues. Yup, we found more tape in there. A square of packing tape.<\/p>\n

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Jolly Harbour (where we are)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Too much to ask.\u00a0<\/strong>In the age of the self-driving car… is it too much to ask that an engine simply shuts down automatically before destroying itself? Apparently, it is.<\/p>\n

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Hermitage Bay (where we should be)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professional vs. amateur.\u00a0<\/strong>On the best day of our passage to Antigua we managed to make 168 miles. The same week on the same ocean Fran\u00e7ois Gabart, a French sailor, sailed 851 nautical miles in 24 hours. He’s attempting to\u00a0break the solo round-the-world record of 49 days. He’ll most likely succeed.<\/p>\n

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Can’t complain about the view… as long as we don’t look the other way<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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People are clamoring for an update. There’s not much, really. We’re still stranded at the work dock in Jolly Harbour. It’s actually not too bad. What’s frustrating though is not the daily noise of all kinds of engines, nor the bottom paint dust that ruined an entire week of Kathy’s waxing and polishing \u00d1and\u00fa’s deck, … Continue reading “Random thoughts while stranded (and somewhat bored) in Jolly Harbour”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7GCAo-l0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}