Subject: little france again

Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:20:05 +0000

From: rosemarie allen

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now in st anne martinique- after 56 days in the boatyard in trinidad, we are finally free again. no more guards with dogs, chain link fences with razor wire on top and bright blinding lights at night. as a sea trial, we sailed to chacachacare, an island 6 miles west of trinidads boatyards. this island is an abandoned leper colony and hospital as of 30 years ago when a cure was discovered. thru some misunderstanding our scheduled daysail with the trini family glitched, but we were happpy to spend our last sunday with bic and shirley ashore: eating, liming, shopping, and visiting the beach. since departing trini a week ago Libelle has been performing flawlessly after her 3 mo rest, except when 12 hrs south of martinique the volvo stuttered in low RPMs - from dirty fuel filters? we arrived in good spirits in the land of wine, cheese , baguettes and wonderful music. while at anchor here near le marin, jim helped the volvo to clean life once again. rosi just purchased matching glasware with dijon mustard special at the supermarche. looking for weather to sail 3 days directly to bonaire for the rest of november. Honduras, guatemala and belize - dez thru march.but as usual our schedule is very loose-read delayed. always happy to get your replies and looking forward to the gouda in the dutch leeward antilles- alles gouda jim and rosi 1