Wednesday 25 Mar, CY day 11: Helping quarantined yachts before a three days curfew is instated.
We wake to another windless day. and so glad to have the over-boom shade up. While having breakfast in the cockpit we see the couple from the nearby quarantined French Amel yacht approaching in their dinghy. Two days ago we had dinghied to the 3 quarantined yachts, offering to get anything they needed from ashore. So the French couple were here to give us shopping lists for both themselves and another French yacht. They said nothing is urgent and we did not promise to get it today, as we were in the supermarket just yesterday.
After breakfast we continue the fender blanket project. First cutting out the material we’d marked out yesterday on the pontoon, then practicing what type of hems we will construct. After a bit of practice I’m starting to feel quite confident with the SailRite sewing machine. We decide that for the lower hem we will attempt to fill it with lead-shot, from some old diving-weight packets. Hoping this will stop the breeze from lifting the blanket as we motor along.
Early afternoon we decide we should really go and buy the food for the quarantined yachts today, rather than have them wait till tomorrow. And we are very glad we did. At the supermarket the queue is not as long as yesterday but clearly they are preparing for much longer queues, for some reason, already with tents raised to provide shade.
Today we are in and through the store pretty quickly. But when we exit, we are surprised the queue is significantly longer. We then set out in the dinghy doing the shopping deliveries (which, by the way, didn’t include a single toilet roll!). We feel like “boat boys”! Obviously the recipients are very grateful.
When we get to the British Amel, they tell us that a 3 days 24/7 curfew from 7pm this evening has just been announced on one of the local radio stations. The island’s Covid cases are now up to 8 and the authorities seem quite rattled by the increase. They are clearly desperate to keep this in a containment phase and not let the situation run away from them. So it was a VERY good job we decided to shop today, not tomorrow. And it explains why they were preparing for an invasion of the supermarket!
Like the previous evening, by 7:30pm it’s all silent onshore. We only see the occasional blue flashing light as the police patrol the streets and the sound of the police helicopter which seems to be constantly patrolling from the air. The only sound ashore is a distant corus of cockerels crowing. Otherwise, total peace! I bet after all this is over, people will want to keep some of this peace as well as the significantly less pollution. It will be very interesting to see how this experience changes humanity’s habits. Certainly there will be a lot of post-analysis data to be researched and conclusions to be drawn.
After a wonderful sunset a beautiful new moon quickly follows the sun to disappear into the sea. The rest of the evening we relax in the cockpit, with cocktails, as Cloudy gently rocks in the totally calm water. Tomorrow we are under curfew! After all the counties we’ve visited and lived in, we have never been subject to curfew. Another life experience, ticked!
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Enjoying catching up with many older episodes and reading your recent blogs.., wondering what happened to episodes after departing from St Eustatius to St. Barts ?? Seems to be a big gap where you don’t have videos posted on your YouTube channel between St. Eustatius episode and then jumps to FL and Bahamas..just wondering what happened.
Early in 2019 we got rather fed up with lots of pretty nasty comments we were getting on You Tube, so we decided to stop posting. And in stopping posting we also stopped editing (mistake!). So we have quite a back log of editing to do from Jan-May 2019 (St. Barths, St. Martin, Saba, Anguilla, BVIs, USVIs, SVIs, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos, and then passage back to Chesapeake). When we restarted in October Oana decided to give You Tube another go so we started posting again. One day we hope to get back to the 2019 videos because we definitely want to edit them even just for ourselves. We only started to put the videos on You Tube so friends and family could watch and see what we were doing. We never intended to get any kind of a following or to make money out of it and we still dont. So when the idiots started rolling in and insulting us, we basincally said: we dont need that thanks very much. Maybe we were over sensitive.
Mi chiamo Lacchini Gabriele sono un Italiano che vive in Romania e guardo con molto piacere e interesse i video che costruite apprezzo molto le capacità dell0ingegnere nella manutenzione della vostra bellissima barca e le attenzioni della consorte dove posso scrivere per mantenermi in contatto con voi ?
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Gabriele,
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Well you know as i do and most of your viewers and followers would agree..there are a lot of envious, unhappy, jealous ass…:&*^ out there in the world and in the youtube world. You both make great sailing videos in the same group as far as quality and information and pure enjoyment like RAN Sailing, Zatara family, Gone with the Wynns etc, Ruby Rose..but different. Very informative, relaxing to watch, lots of awesome sailing shots…probably some of the best marketing for Hallberg-Rassy brand, I mean so much of the shots of that hull just slicing through the water and the sounds, ..just addictive to binge on. See some other good folks that experience the same with their sailing and adventure channels and videos that they post for people to choose to watch and enjoy. I hope you continue to keep on again and don’t give the negative jealous idiots and their comments a second thought. Youtube should have a way to delete stupid comments. Looking forward to the backlog when you are able to post them. I was loosing my mind late last night trying to find the next episode after St. Eustatius..he he..thanks again!
Glen….Delighted to read that Ms Oana decided to give YouTube a second chance ’cause we would have missed out on Your views of the World…! We really enjoy your tasteful, informative & well edited Travelogues….a testament to your maturity…! Unlike those videos of others which are devoid of information; but, full of self-pronouncement and tarted up with excessive “cheesecake” to attract viewers.
On a lighter note….and not forgetting the serious side; as expected, Covid-19 self-quarantine has inspired a revised & updated version of The Knack’s 1979 hit song “My Sharona” by Chris Mann – sung as “My Corona”….and another family (Kris Baines) has given the same treatment to a Rolling Stones song resulting in “I Can’t Get No Sanitiser”…! Chuckleworthy….when next able, check them out on YouTube.
Stay Balanced & Safe,
Chris L.
haha … thats funny. Will look them up on You Tube. You also made us giggle on the “cheesecake” comment 🙂 We do have plenty of cheesecake on Cloudy bay, but we like to keep it tastefully covered to viewers. We dont want cheesecake viewers, and in any case, who would want to see me in a Mankini anyway?!
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