June 2017 | MONTH IN REVIEW

Here's a quick summary of what we were up to this month. We flew to Miami, Florida for a 6 day break cum visa run on June 10th. It was a mad rush -- lots of driving around, searching for boat stuff, sorting out banking issues (read '6 Day Break in Florida' post). We got some port visors in Florida which we installed last week! Very happy I don't have to run around, opening and closing the portlights every time it rains. We hired a car when we got back to Trinidad, believe it or not, it's cheaper than taking a taxi back to Chaguaramas...

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6 Day Break in Florida

Been back in Trinidad for a couple of weeks now with a six months visa. Just 6 days in Florida, what were we thinking?! It was a mad, mad rush driving from one place to another. Picking up boat parts, shopping for boat stuff, sorting out banking issues and sadly no time for sightseeing; not even the beach, but.. most importantly we made time to stock up on chocolate! {priorities!} Just for fun, I'm going to describe our Day 0 in numbers.  - 10.06.2017 was the day we flew out from Port of Spain (POS) to Miami (MIA). - 3½ hours was...

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Re-sealing the Shroud Chain Plates

The shroud chain plates on the starboard side had been leaking behind our dagger board for quite a while now, but we hadn't had the time to get it with our never-ending list of to do's.  We finally decided to reseal them and were somewhat surprised (well we should've known) to discover that the chain plates were installed straight through our cored deck and were only sealed in with Sikaflex! Similar to how all our other deck fittings were installed.. 😒 Needless to say, water had seeped through and rotted a whole lot of our balsa core...

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