It's been a busy couple of weeks. David has been fitting the parts I brought back from the UK to the generator and main engine fixing niggling and bringing both up to cruising health.
We are ordering a new main and head sail which has required measuring and re-measuring to make sure we get just the right thing even thought we are a production boat and the size will be documented. Don't we live in an international world? Our sail maker was born in NZ. We met Phil of Zoom Sails in Langkawi, Malaysia where he was living on his boat with his Danish wife and running a small repair shop and commissioning new sails from a loft in Sri Lanka. We bought a new mizzen from him and seven years later it is still a good sail, never had an issue with it. The lack of a sail maker we like in Grenada and satisfaction with our previous experience with Zoom Sails led us back to them.
Today Phil and family are living in Denmark and our sails are being made in Sri Lanka and Fedexed to us here in Grenada in 4 to 5 weeks' time.
Jackster is feeling the love at the moment. Not only is she having new sails, but she's being hauled out at the beginning of October to have her topsides polished, propeller and bow thruster serviced and new antifouling. Well, this is the plan.
David is going with Jotun Seaforce 90 for the fifth time. He likes it and we find it easily lasts 30 months. Jotun is a Norwegian company with an outlet in Trinidad and one Grenadian agent who imports it here. Today he delivered 4 of the 6 gallons of black we ordered. We could have had six gallons today if David had been prepared to take two blue and four black. Instead we have fingers crossed that we will have the balance of black as promised in a couple of weeks. A good illustration of island business.
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