Leslie’s Sister Ally came
for a short visit and in preparation we tried to get all our work done before
she arrived. In that vein of thought, Carl started to replace the starboard
engine exhaust elbow as the port engine part had failed at the beginning of January
so he figured the starboard couldn’t be far behind. It came off with little
problem and he saw salt around the end of the heat exchanger so decided to
replace the o ring there also. The top allen bolts came out hard and the bottom
one broke the head off. Nooo, a broken bolt! That and many other colorful words
escaped from the engine room. With Ally coming the next day he decided to spend
3 days spraying it with PB Blaster and tapping it before trying to extract it.
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| Ally arrives |
Ally arrived early while
Carl was still running around getting parts so we passed the time catching up
with each other. We had a wonderful time! We rented a car and had dinner up at
the Island View, Visited St. John to see their St. Patrick’s Day parade, and
visited the taste of the Caribbean at UVI.
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| View of harbor from Island View |
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| Humming Birds up at the Island View |
It was raining as we drove
up to Island View for dinner so we didn’t see the sunset with all the showers
gusting through, but the view is still spectacular!
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| The ladies relax! |
As Allie and Leslie relaxed
in the water chairs, Carl wrestled with the broken bolt. After a while of vice
grip mechanics he finally got it out. Hurrah! He cleaned the threads and successfully
installed the new O-ring and exhaust elbow. Now he can swim too.
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| The parade is about to start |
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| It looks like Mr and Mrs Ireland |
We drove to Redhook and took
the ferry to St John to watch the St. Patrick Day’s Parade. It is one block
long, had about 4 floats and 2 “marching” units and took 22 minutes. However,
the crowd was into it and the participants were energetic so it was a really fun
time.
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| Sue was having a fun time |
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| The parade begins |
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| They are restoring the fort at Charlotte Amelia |
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| The food tents drew a large crowd |
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| Kid in a ball looks like fun to me |
The Taste of the Caribbean was
fun. It not only had local food, but an old mustang parade, kids activities,
dancing, and university information booths. You know senior people, us, can
take classes for free!
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| The classic Mustang parade |
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| The Jumbie here is different than BVI |
We also had some time to
just relax together and with other boaters with a beach cookout, and a beach
sundowner get together. We also played her favorite dice game Farkel. She is
the master of it, but Carl managed to win 3 of the 5 games.
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| Ahhh! The beauty Queens |
Her visit ended way to fast
and she was gone back to sunny Wyoming.
We watched our friends on
Oceanwings and Alpha Crucis head off to St. Eustatius, then a couple days
latter we headed to Culebra.
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