Start of sailing season 2009

After a few delays on work that the boat yard was supposed to do over the summer, Jimmy finally got back to Heat Wave in Grenada on January 6th. A couple of weeks of getting jobs done and chasing up on boat yard workers, the boat was finally put back in the water a couple of weeks later. A few days later, Charlotte and I were due to fly from Bermuda, down to meet Jimmy. However, plans changed when Charlotte fell off a wall and broke her arm the afternoon before we were due to leave - instead of the planned big clean before closing up for 4 months, the evening was spent in Emergency.

Charlotte is fine, very used to getting around with a cast from her wrist to her upper arm (just as well as its on for 6 weeks!), with all the class mates signatures all over it (who were a bit surprised to see her back at school after all having said good bye!). However, the doctor wanted us to wait for a 2 week checkup / X-ray before leaving. We already have a doctor lined up in St Martin to take the cast off.

Change of plan - Jimmy (not wanting to stay a further 2 weeks in Grenada, and anxious to get sailing) sailed the boat with a friend from Grenada, to Antigua (with only a brief overnight stop in Bequia). He just arrived tonight and Charlotte and I will fly into Antigua on Tuesday (assuming all goes well with the Monday doctor's appointment)