The boatyard at Grenada Marine.
Written Nov 29, 2015
Grenada Marine, St David’s, Grenada
We’re back. It’s only been 3 months, but it feels like it was a lifetime ago when we packed Cedar up for hurricane season and headed back to Toronto.
Land was good.
Blake wrote his exams. Moss had his hip surgery. We caught up with friends and family in Toronto, Montreal, the Eastern Townships (SE of Montreal) and Ottawa.
But now we’re back and in the throws of prepping the boat for being at sea. There is a slew of jobs to do, but we’re prioritizing the ones that will let us get out of the boatyard and into the water.
The boat yard is fine; there’s a little community of live-aboards here who toil away by day on their hulls, sanding, priming and painting, or like us, replacing through-hulls and moving depth sounders. There is a restaurant here where you can have a beer or a full meal. Sometimes there is karaoke — when the staff stick around after hours to belt out their best Kenny Rogers. It is awesome.
It’s a real shame that we missed our friends aboard La Vagabond, who left the boatyard the day before we got here. But we are stoked to have reconnected with Dhanu, fellow sailing family we met in Soufrière, St. Lucia last season. And we’ve had the pleasure of meeting another sailing family (with teens!) aboard Island Swift.
It’s the start of the another season, and unlike last year, we’re here for it.
The waves are lapping at the little beach in this bay. The sun is going down. We are frying bacon. All is well.