Thursday, February 13, 2020

Turks & Caicos
21.45.631N
72.13.429W

I guess the most important thing to tell you about is we finally got the rigging survey and forwarded it to the insurance agent.  Bless her heart, she contacted the surveyor and worked with him to get a more polished report to submit to the underwriters.  So now we will have 2 insurance carriers to choose from.  Nothing like waiting until the last minute. 

Other than that, we had 2 new boats come in.  It took almost everyone on the dock to get one boat into the slot Bob, the owner, wanted to put it.  It fit but the two side boats had to be pulled apart to put the new one between.  No small feat but accomplished without any damage.  The Brits aboard were good natured about it.  They tried to drop their dinghy hanging over the walkway put forgot to put the plug in so it started filling with water as soon as it hit the surface.  A quick retrieval saved the day. 

The weather window seems to be shifting more.  We were hoping for a Friday departure but obviously we’re sliding it a day.  Right now, we’ve lost a part of a day as it extended to Monday before closing again, that’s barely enough time to get to Puerto Rico.  We’ll check again tomorrow.  Where we’re sitting, the wind has not died down in the least.  Not a good sign. 

We changed things up a bit and concluded our day by playing dominos on Texas Crewed this evening.  I made a new recipe called chocolate chip cheesecake bars that went over well.  Gotta keep those recipes that are easy to make on the boat. 

Guess that’s it for today.