We keep promising our friends and family to take them on a video tour of S/V Rascal but we just haven't pulled it together yet. So in the interim we offer up a substitute: A tour of a boat that is the same model as ours: S/V Delos. The guy who owns this boat apparently got tired of the 9-5 life, bought the boat, and took off on a voyage around the world. Last I checked he was in South Africa. He has made a ton of fabulous videos recording his ventures and has a few hundred thousand followers--most of whom wish they were him! So except for the bikini-clad girls, S/V Delos looks almost exactly like S/V Rascal. Here is the S/V Delos website (that we envy so much) and the tour is below! Okay. I"ve been back on Rascal for about a week. She is in Port St Louis Marina in Grenada. Linda will join me next week. Today, I took our dinghy over to St. Georges across the bay and went to the market. Saturday is a big day...May try to introduce this blog on Facebook....Hmmm. Will it work? This was a mural on the wall of an open area in the market place. Sort of captures the atmosphere though there were more cars than buses. This is just part of the fruit and vegetable market. Bananas, coconuts, avocado, etc. There are lots of little kiosks with lots of people selling spices. All these spices are grown on Grenada; the whole market smelled wonderfully spicy. This nice lady sold me some saffron and nutmeg. She explained how the saffron is prepared; one bag was coarse, another was medium, a third was a fine powder. $5EC each (5 Eastern Caribbean Dollars = $1.85US.)
I'm starting this blog in response to friends and family who keep yelling at us to keep them apprised of where we are and what we are doing! I'm new to this so any suggestions would be helpful. I think you can comment below.
S/V (sailing vessel) "Rascal" is currently holed up at the Port Louis Marina on the island country of Grenada for hurricane season. Technically, hurricane season is over November 1 and, technically, Grenada is just out of the hurricane belt. For the months of July and August, we have been visiting doctors/dentists/family in Stuart, Florida and doing other business before we go back to Rascal next week. If you haven't seen this two minute video, it should give you a sense of our new lifestyle! Below is S/V Rascal in Soper's Hole, Tortola, British Virgin Islands last November. And here is a video of Rascal motoring near English Harbor, Antigua. More to come... |
AuthorRick and Linda Grimes bought a sailboat and left the U S of A for the Caribbean in 2015. Archives
April 2018
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