Sewing away in Margaritaville!!!

Amazing how fast time goes by when you’re having fun and that’s just what we had. We never made it to Testigos or Coche, we just hung out in Porlamar, Isla Margarita with Heart Jump and did the tourist thing; shopping, movie, shelling on the beach, dining out, cocktails at sunset, some more shopping and also not so tourist stuff like sail repair.

How does Jimmy Buffet’s song go again: “Sewing away in Margaritaville”!!!

The mainsail of Heart Jump had a rip, we brought our sewing machine to their boat, arranged it on deck under the mainsail and sewed away. Didn’t even have to take the sail all the way down, it worked out great and it was a great team effort; as a thank you Michael and Jennifer took us out for dinner.

The whole time the wind was blowing like snot and swells headed right into the anchorage. Sid helped Heart Jump to get their stern anchor set and we mounted our flopper stoppers. I tell you those flopper stoppers are the hit, they slow the roll down so much it’s like not even having swells and compared to all the other boats we had it calm. Wind is still blowing over 20 knots at nights even higher and pretty much every night we had squalls with yet higher winds. Sid likes to sleep in the cockpit but got rained out many times and had to come down below. Finally looks like we have a weather window, short one, but enough time to get to Trinidad. CJ the weather guru who gives precise weather every morning on the Porlamar Cruisers Net VHF 72, even promised us that we will have calm seas and 10 to 15 knots of wind, perfect cruising condition. The high swells having rolled into the anchorage all week long are noticeably getting smaller too.

So it’s a go, we’re leaving tomorrow morning early at sunrise. Keep your fingers crossed for a smooth crossing! Coconut Water here I come!!!!!!