Finally all pieces have come together

We are still in St Anne Martinique and waiting no more. The parts for the back stay adjuster have arrived and we have picked up the piece and installed it. We are a complete sailboar again. But we will continue to sit here for a week or so since Dawn and Laurie on Cat Tales have arrived and the weather is not suitable for sailing. We have been busy since they arrived at the end of last week. Visiting,catching up and generally having a good time. Friends on Terentela from Halifax have been here too and another boat Aspen is due in today. So lots of social activity. We have been on several walks and enjoying too much good French food. But we need more walks than the good food to make a good balance. Today we are meeting in town for a walk around town and lunch at a neat little street cafe where we can catch up on Internet (oops it's Wednesday and it's closed!) The Internet and phone service on the French islands are not like the English islands at all. We now have no phone or Internet on the boat because of the high prices. Phone doesn't matter so much but we do miss news and weather we were getting. But it does make you get off the boat and go to town have a beer and buy a fresh baguette. Can you see our boat from here?

The weather has been lovely.... cooler at night and just enough rain to keep the water jug full of rain water for laundry. Not too much wind for the last week but should pick up again over the next few days. Dawn and Laurie plan to head out mid next week and possibly we will go up the coast of Martinique for a couple weeks and explore some new harbours before heading back to St Lucia. We have a bit of an early departure this year leaving on April 2. We want to be home and settled before heading west for grandchild number 3 ( another boy for Heather). We will go to Calgary May 1 for two weeks. We will be home for Easter, Kendra's birthday,Sydney's birthday .....all fun things we have missed the last couple years. 

When it comes to boat projects and job difficulty one just never knows. We installed the back stay adjuster in about 5 mins. We bought replacement winch handle holders with predrilled screw holes and screws included yesterday and Brian is installing as I write. Since they are French made they are ever so slightly different and after almost an hour and the whole tool box out and electric drill in play he is nearly finished. What a headache!