Friday, December 4, 2009
I'm sitting in a Café having a
Mille-feuille and a good coffee as I write this, luckily they let me use a power plug as my Sony notebook's battery is dead; unfortunately there is no WiFi access here but I'll catch up on my posts when I get to St. Martin as the Iridium phone is incredibly slow; I had about 250Kb of incoming mails and responded with 2 short 1-liners and it took almost an hour! I am really dissatisfied with Iridium for data connections.
I motored from Gustavia to the anchorage of Columbier just around the bend, as it was too short a distance to warrant raising the sails and I needed to charge my batteries in any case. I made one quick attempt at picking up a mooring, but they have no pennant so I went straight to anchoring and spent the day doing minor cleaning work in the shade of the bimini and finally took a picture of the liferaft for these pages. The wind picked up towards dusk so my plan of firing up the barbeque and making a steak will have to postponed until tomorrow. I have some frankfurters left for tonight.
I'm sitting in a Café having a Mille-feuille and a good coffee as I write this, luckily they let me use a power plug as my Sony notebook's battery is dead; unfortunately there is no WiFi access here but I'll catch up on my posts when I get to St. Martin as the Iridium phone is incredibly slow; I had about 250Kb of incoming mails and responded with 2 short 1-liners and it took almost an hour! I am really dissatisfied with Iridium for data connections.
I motored from Gustavia to the anchorage of Columbier just around the bend, as it was too short a distance to warrant raising the sails and I needed to charge my batteries in any case. I made one quick attempt at picking up a mooring, but they have no pennant so I went straight to anchoring and spent the day doing minor cleaning work in the shade of the bimini and finally took a picture of the liferaft for these pages. The wind picked up towards dusk so my plan of firing up the barbeque and making a steak will have to postponed until tomorrow. I have some frankfurters left for tonight.
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