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Guadeloupe-a paradise and some renovation.

2019-02-24 17:42

We arrived to Guadeloupe some days ago and are happy to see this place. The time here we fill with different things. On Monday we are going to put Trinity up in a dry dock. Its high time to clean the hull and get some new antifouling paint on her. Im also going to check all the zinkanodes and the propellershaft bearing. The last days we also have got a "bakterie" thing in our keelson so it smells like a drain in the whole boat. I think its because the warm and humid weather we are in. Tomorrow we will take away the floor in the boat and clean it up when the boat are on land.

Yesterday we had a wonderful day at a small island. Just hanging around, swimming, sunbathing, getting coconuts. Think we drank around 7-8 coconuts. Learned to split them up:) We took some of them onboard so we can drink them also when we are at sea.

First day we arived here we took a "city day" in Pointe a pitre. Bought some fruits in the local market and Charlotte did some shopping of course, Nice clothes for really good prices was to tempting for her.....:)

Sedcond day we had a fixing the boat day from morning to evening. Its always things to fix , repair or just prepare for coming actions/sailings.

On Wednesday Trinity III will set sail to a new island, Antigua and then after that Barbuda. Hopefully we can catch up our finish friends on "Marja II" so we can take a sundowner with them again. Last time was in Las Palmas.

Dominica-the "other" side....

2019-02-17 16:37

Dominica has also another side....

Its a very poor island with unfortunately some criminal people. You have to be on your guard when you are here. If they can rob or fool you , they will for sure do. Its because 2 years ago they had the worst hurricane in 40 years. Its called Maria. Most of the island were destroyed and numerous boats where blown up on land and destroyed. Almost all bridges and roads were flushed away.

Where ever you go on the island you still see relics after the cathastrof. When we spoke to the habitants of Dominica about the storm it was amazing stories we heard. There was not one leaf left on any tree in the jungle, house roofs were flying around and so on.....

The island it self is VERY poor and they try to rebuild it as good as they can, but it takes very long time to recover all this. They need the money they can get from tourists or sailors like us to recover, unfortunalety they rob you if they can. We put as much as money we could on this island so we at least helped what we can. Its heartbreaking to see a paradise like this can be so totally destroyed in 12 tough hours....

Dominica-the beatiful side!

2019-02-17 16:23

Dominicas beatiful side is the nature, the EXTREME jungle. Its numerous of waterfalls is magestic to see and swim in. They have vulcano "lakes" with sulfur. A unique animal life with BIG spiders, snakes and so on. If you like to hike in a bit tough conditions but love to explore Dominica is a perfect place. But dont be afraid of high pulse and swetty conditions....

We took some days to explore and was completely exhausted every day. A good feeling after been on the boatfor some days. Theodora and Konstantin loved it. Next target is Les Saintes, a small french island just 17Nm north of Dominica. A more dry island with a old castle from Napoleon when he stayed in Carribeans.