Here now I could ask for a boat like the “Rising Sun” and a bank account to support her; but I doubt Santa will oblige, I could ask for immortality but then W/ and I would age differently; so instead I’ll ask simply that he talk to Mother Nature and stop the damn surge that is coming into the harbor and rolling us from side to side, and I’d ask that the items we’ve ordered show up before we choose to leave! We’ve been lucky that neither of us have been thrown out of our berth’s yet. But; we’ve been close! Some of the regulars to St. Thomas have said they’ve never seen the rolling this bad. Never!
And I say I hope Santa will do the above because in my world no matter what I would “ask” for I would always seem to get; underwear, new shirts, T’s, socks, slacks, etc. Sometimes even shoes. I mean; I loved the shoes I had as I was growing up; they fit well, they were well ventilated, they had dirt and smudges in all the right places. They were comfortable. But no matter, Santa would find a reason to give me a new pair and my mom would do her best to sneak my favorite ones into the garbage while I would do my best to locate and continue to wear them. That’s how the cycle went.
For now we wait; tomorrow we’ll spend x-mas at Ana’s and Zdravko’s with their niece and her family. Then we’ll get massages that W/ and I gave each other for x-mas. After that; most likely we’ll pick up some groceries and move to a calmer anchorage so I can go up the mast, pull down the forestay, shorten the forestay by 3″ and put it back up. Then back to our anchorage here; hopefully minus the roll, to put up the roller furling track, get Ana and Zdravko out to the boat, pack a few things and begin our tour of the Virgin Islands. At this point we’re planning on going to the BVI’s briefly, then around the top of St. John then to St. Croix and then we’re not sure. We have two more things to pick up that we ordered; a spear gun and some great thread locking compound that has a zinc component to it so as to slow down or eliminate corrosion between dissimilar metal.
So Santa, if you can stop the roll, and speed up the mails then my belief in you will be restored. If not I’ll just be a…… doubting Dave.
Fair Winds