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25 July - Ron's Party & The Incident with the Beard
Took the boat over to Ron and Ariane's near Suzanna's Laguna and anchored up for Ron's birthday party.
Click here to see photos. A good night was had by all, especially the mozzies that absolutely ate me alive, even though I was wearing long trousers and was covered in mozzie repellant. The evil monsters bite you through your clothes, you practically have to bath in the stuff to stop them from getting at you. So am in a very itchy spotty situation at present!
Anyway I had to do a quick update here as the most surprising event occurred at this party, half way through the night Stuart shaved his beard off without warning! It really confused me after a few beers, he looked like a completely different person!! But hurrah the beard is no longer! Well it is still there but much shorter, Chewie is now back to Stewie. We'll just have to wait and see how long it takes before it gets big and horrid again! Click here to see the new Stuart
2 July - Back on the Rio Dulce
Oh dear, after last months exciting adventures, this month is beginning off a bit dull! There aren't even any new pictures for you to look at.
We got back onto the river on 16th June, we had no problems clearing back into Livingston so all our paperwork is now up to date and good for another 3 months. We anchored off for about a week, then went back to Tijax mainly to make it easier for Stuart to work on the boat. It is nice to have shore power again and not to have to worry about the water tanks running out.
Stuart went with Jeff to Morales to get the alternator fixed, the guy did a good job and sent it back a couple of days later all mended. Stuart also fixed the bilge pump which was began to make very odd noises and produce a very nasty smell, ending up in the water refusing to drain, but that is all fixed now too.
The current job which has now been current for the last week or so is the tightening of the Stays. Stuart untightened these a while back only to realise that the boat moves far too much during the day with all the launchers zooming past to be able to tighten them correctly so has decided the best time to do it is very early morning at sunrise. So far he hasn't managed to make it out of bed before 9 despite setting the alarm in the mornings, so we are left with the boom lying on top of the boat and the Stays clanging about all day long. No doubt this will get finished eventually.
Recreation wise we have been out for a few nice meals, had friends over for dinner, played with Ron and Arianes 5 teeny weeny new born kittens!! They are soo sweet! I have been working on 'That-Boat's' website, which should be up and running soon. Other than that its all been a bit slow round here. The rainy season appears to be showing its face a bit and most nights we have rain and thunder storms, but it works out quite well as this usually happens whilst we are sleeping. We are still planning to take a couple of weeks out to Honduras in the near future. We just have to get the final few bits of work done, which is really just to tighten the Stays also the Stern Gland is leaking which needs fixing to stop the boat sinking. Then check for a good time with the weather then we should be ready to go.