The Vortex Voyage

August 8, 2011

We’ve been remiss, not updating the blog often enough. So, we’re going to start trying to update it once a week.

We’ve been busy lately, getting a lot of work done. We had the sail cover re-sewn, and had some places on the mainsail re-enforced. They did a pretty good job, and cheap. We also bought a major windlass, for pulling up the anchor. We’ve got dinghy davits on order, which are for lifting the dinghy out of the water. We had the boat cleaned and polished. We’re getting there, getting ready to head south, that is.

We had Neil’s family for a visit and they stayed onboard. It was interesting having so many people in such tight quarters. Neatness becomes important, they’re so much more stuff on board. Well, we survived it.

They brought us our new video camera, so we’ve been playing with it. Also, in order to make updating the blog easier, we’re going to include more video and less words.

Here’s a video of our visit to the blowhole with Neil’s family. You’ll see Moe, Steven and Thomas.

And the fish market:

There’s a blue heron that’s been hanging around:

And an usual shot of the boat moving, from the dock.