Go Splash!

Chaguaramas, Trinidad

Just shy of 6 weeks on the hard, we finally splashed.  Yahoo!  Given that the Crew had other plans for the day, our trusty Cap’n was left to cope with this ordeal all on his lonesome.  We couldn’t delay the splash; it’s currently peak haul-out season and yard booking chances were getting slimmer by the day.  Staff were busy re-stacking boats to make room for at least 22 incoming catamarans and Peakes Yard down the road was nearing capacity too!  Word about the yard had it that another boat was waiting (patiently) for us to leave.  So, our Cap’n did!

Looking good & ready to go!

Further, he had to move WJ3 to a mooring the next bay over at TTSA (Trinidad & Tobago Sailing Association), a friendly, low-key club for locals with a few spare moorings to lease out to the likes of us.  Here was a chance to get the fridges going, make sure the generator worked and that we had sufficient power to run the boat before striking out for remote anchorages and sunny skies.  (You know, actually doing the fun stuff!)

At the TTSA dock trying to get aboard Bruce gracefully!

During our time at Power Boats Yard, we’d not been idle.  WJ3 seemed endlessly full of tradies and workers.  We hid below daily in the company of Walmart’s teeniest air conditioner (in temperatures well over 36 most days), and yet somehow managed to achieve a readiness status that the Cap’n was (sort-of) happy with.  Into this impossible climate, we welcomed Mr Lozza, a glutton for punishment it seems, for an opportunity to cruise the Caribbean’s windward islands during hurricane season.  Life is never dull for WJ3’s Motley Crew!

Port of Spain lit up in the distance after a storm blowing over cleared the skies.
(Taken from our mooring at TTSA)