A Crab Never Forget He Hole “There’s no place like home”

We made it back to our beloved Moon in St. Kitts!

Our fun started when we arrived at the Miami airport for our flight only to find out that our tickets had been canceled. So let me explain, we had originally planned to fly out of Ft. Myers to avoid driving to Miami (crazy traffic). After we purchased our tickets we found out that we would have to first fly to Charlotte with a 4 hour layover and then another 12 hour layover in Miami. So, we decided instead to drive to Miami and fly straight out. Apparently if you fly on American Airlines and have connecting flights and do not use one of them they cancel your tickets for all flights that day. This was news to us. When we arrived at the airport we could not sign in and we were directed to a desk agent. The guys at the counter said that we would have to purchase new tickets at a price of 450.00 each because we missed out other flights and our tickets were canceled…ggrrr. As you can imagine we were not too happy at that moment. Thankfully after typing on his computer for what seemed forever Guillermo at the ticket counter was able to find a seat for us at no charge. Quite a bit of emotions ran through us that morning!

Moon sitting pretty in the boat yard 🙂

The flight over was fine and we were so happy to see Moon sitting right where we had left her. We were told that she was fine after the hurricanes but we can’t even begin to tell you how we felt when we finally saw that it was true. Boy did we get lucky! If either of the 2 hurricanes had gone 10 or 20 miles north or south of where they went Moon might not have survived.

Brian up the mast re-rigging our halyards. We strip every line and all of our canvas when we store the boat.

We’ve spent the last week getting her ready to be launched so we can get out and have some fun. No major surprises. We discover a few ant colonies that came in for refuge from the storms and set up camp but thankfully most of the ants were already dead and so far most of the others were quick to leave with the help of some toxic spray.

Guess that so many boats hauled out for the hurricanes that they ran out of boat stands at the yard and had to block some boats up with 4 by 4’s!

We decided that it was time to replace our very old and not safe leaking propane stove/oven that we believe has on the boat since it was built (1970). Unfortunately we haven’t been able to find a marine stove because the stores did not have any in stock as far as St. Martin so we have to make do with a camping stove for now. Main thing is that it is safer so we don’t blow ourselves up! We’re hoping that we will come across a replacement in Antigua or Grenada.

I tried to find a picture of our old stove/oven but this was the closest that I could find. We threw out the old one before I could get a pic and apparently I need to take more pictures inside of the boat!

Our new temp stove and the gaping space left behind from our old one. Brian has plans for a new stove top and some custom shelves in the future.

Speaking of places that we might be heading, we are not exactly sure what we have in store for ourselves. These hurricanes really took their toll on so many islands that security seems to be an issue in some. We had so wanted Dominica to be on our lists of stops this year but it will not be. Same for St. Lucia and St. Vincent. After our boarding in “safe” St. Martin we are not willing to take any chances. Unfortunately where people have virtually nothing you have everything when you stop there. We know that it is the acts of a few that reflect on all but we would just rather avoid any crime “hot spots”. For now we splash down tomorrow and will be spending a few days at a local favorite harbor of our for some much needed R&R.

Back to finding chaney and sea marbles at one of my favorite beach combing spots. This is where I got the marbles that Dave Brown turned into beautiful jewelry for me.

Jewelry that is made from some of the marbles and chaney we’ve found. My friend Dave Brown turned my beach finds into works of art!

That is it for us for now. Wish that we had more pictures for you but my camera had some “technical difficulties” and I just found out that most of the pictures that we took were blurry. No worries though it was just a setting and human error and we got it all fixed up and ready to take more fantastic shots. Take care for now all we will post again soon.

Jennifer and Brian SV/Moon