Wednesday 15 Apr, CY day 32: We move closer to the shore an a mooring buoy which becomes available.
After breakfast, we notice the French ketch (which we helped during its quarantine) heading out to sea. Their plan is to sail back to France, so this must be them departing Grand Cayman to start their long journey. They had been moored much closer to the shore than us, tucked in next to the commercial docks. We quickly debate if we should move there before someone else grabs the vacated buoy. Positives are: more shelter from swell and better WiFi. Negatives are: less cooling breeze, possibly more flying bugs, and close to docks which can be noisy at night. Well, what the hell, let’s have a change of scene! We VHF call port security and get permission to move, and five minutes later we have dropped our current mooring and on our way to the next. It feels good to be moving through the water again even if the “passage” is only 400m!
Once safely secured again we instantly notice the swell to be much less here, and the breeze is still good. And best of all, we can now access free WiFi on all PCs and phones without using Cloudy’s WiFi booster. We are connected to the world once more! A cruiser’s bliss 🙂
No sooner have we settled than we observe the British Amel also moving. They had been on the furthest out mooring where they had been rolling even worse than us. They move onto the buoy we had been on. We wonder if they are miffed at not moving faster than us?!
The rest of the day is rather lazy with just a little pottering. Oana is very happy to catch up on all her news feeds and ability to download new e-books. Plus she can more freely communicate with the IT guys in Bucharest, who are in the midst of (very slowly) changing to a new server to host our blog. It’s a frustrating process that is taking much longer than expected (over a week now). We just pray they don’t lose anything in the process because all these blogs will become our diary to look back on one day. If we lose them it would be tragic, not to mention wasting the thousands of hours it has taken to write and post them all.
Meanwhile I have a gluing session: my eye glasses and all the recent broken cupboard latches. All the drawers and cupboards down below use the same type of latch. There must be at least 50 of them. But the latch design has one plastic weak point which regularly breaks after a while. At euros 25 for one new latch it’s expensive to replace them. But I’ve found a technique where I can repair the broken ones to possibly stronger than new. I usually wait till I’ve got 3 or 4 to repair, then do them all at once. We have about 10 spares, so as soon as one breaks, it’s just a 2 minute job to replace with a good one, either new or repaired.
In the evening we get back to video editing. We must have had at least a week away from it. It was a good break and actually nice to get back to it. Having finished (finally!) the Bahamas, we are now onto the passage: Bahamas to Jamaica. Lots of good sailing. And the first time we actually come around editing sailing while under Parasailor! Not the most exiting editing for Oana, but I love this part of our videos. I could watch Cloudy slicing through the water under full sail, till the cows come home 🙂