A little break due to rain showers...
Yesterday, the heat would have been brutal as there was NO wind! but luckily, frequent cloudy periods made it more bearable.
Our work days have become more productive since we started getting up at 6h30 and working at 7am....more work hours and more showers!!!
We finalized several projects on the weekend, despite having gone to Kingstown on Saturday afternoon. We managed to finish the work below the waterline: all rusty spots sanded, with 2 coats of clear epoxy and 4 coats of white epoxy. The latter one thin and still soft so that the antifouling would stick to it. Then Heiner fixed the damage to the hull: sanded and applied clear and white epoxy. Today a bit of West System will be applied to make the dents less visible. And some rust in the cockpit along the seats and the main sheet track - whatever that thing is called##!!! - also sanded and epoxied. With 35C...it's a lot of effort. When the temperature sinks to 29C during the night we find it cool!!!

The creole dinner was a very rustical thing organised by a community group (to fight local youth violence) and taking place in one of the street of Kingstown. There were several different fish dishes, black fish (small whale), smoked hering, and salt cod. There was some breadfruit, plantain, and dasheen...this is some veggie very popular here but not so good looking or great tasting for us! Anyhow, the whole thing was fun and we went there with a scottish family also working on their boat in the yard...their daughter has been getting involved with the local groups and sold us tickets for this dinner. We then went to a concert of steeldrums by a local youth band - the kids were great and played wonderfully, without music sheets and with lots of rhytm. We had rum and ginger ale...4/5 rum and 1/5 ginger ale..the right proportion!

Today Monday, we will go back into Kingstown for a bit of shopping, and also to have a drink with a man whom we met on the Liat flight from Trinidad to here. We met him on Saturday while strolling in the town streets and decided to have a drink together...

It's 10am..got to go back to work...