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The cruising adventures of Sid and Manuela

Friday, October 01, 2010

Wind reversals

The rabbit stew turned out to be a bust. I cooked it exactly as my father used to but when I tasted it before serving it had the funkiest flavor, it tasted old and rancid and ended in the garbage. So I learned that when something in the freezer section is frozen just wrapped in seran wrap, don't buy it and most in the freezer section is poorly wrapped in just that.
Other than getting used to our new home we cleaned the boat inside out, did laundry figured out how to get into town by bus. The Seru Boca marina is really out in nowhere and so quite you can here a mouse fart and at night it's so dark you don't even have to close your eyes to sleep, we love it.
Hurricane season is in full swing and all I can say is we left Bonaire just on time. The first night in the marina here in Curacao, Bonaire was hit with a very strong wind reversal (which blows the wind on shore into the mooring area) and boats had to abandon anchorage and head into the marina for safety as the rollers get to be about 4 feet and you only have anywhere from 75 to 100 feet from shore on very short scope mooring. (So a few days later when they had another bad one, one of the yellow sub dive boats broke the mooring and ended up on the beach.) The very next evening the wind turned around here in Curacao and blew a strong 25 knots. In no time the VHF radio was busy with announcements of numerous boats dragging, it was a mess but Paradise was securely tucked into the secure Seru Boca Marina. The last ten days went buy like nothing, guess we were too busy cleaning and catching up on computer stuff. Today October 1, we're flying to Bonaire for the regatta. We're looking forward to it and especially staying with Randy and Lourae at the 5 Star Resort "Villa Blue". So for the next 2 weeks there will be no reports in our Blogg.

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