Fun in Georgetown

We’ve been here for almost a week. Yes, we still think this is heaven on earth!

Both our passage problems have been repaired. Tom put out a request on the morning harbor net for the size and type of bolt we needed to repair our helmsman chair. A nearby boat, Angela D, gave us the bolt that used to hold up their mast! They have converted their former motor-sailor to a power boat. Cruisers often help each other out like this. Harold would not take anything for it. Today we took a lot of stuff out of the aft cabin so Tom could work on re-centering and pinning the rudder. It seems to be working much better now!

We brought Lone Star over to Georgetown on Monday, December 10 to checkin with Customs and Immigration. The boat can stay for 12 months. We will need to renew our immigration visas after 90 days.

We also did a walk-through of the local Exuma Market. It is small, but packed with a lot of foods. Prices for staples like fresh vegetables, frozen meats or vegetables, and rice or flour seem to be comparable to the states. As expected, luxury items like Marie’s salad dressing, chips, cookies and chocolate bars are twice the price. Bananas at a roadside stand were $3 for about 14 six inch bananas. These are the sweetest bananas we’ve ever had! I’ll be making banana bread soon. We had one for the passage that was excellent.

Although there is a laundry mat in town, time to be a real cruiser and do it by hand! Ouch, I forgot how much it hurts the hands to wring out clothes. The Mr. Wringer didn’t do a very good job, still needed to squeeze more water out!

Line dried clothes are so crisp!

Another cruiser chore for us; self filling the tank by dinghy water barge. The Exuma Market recently added a Reverse Osmosis-RO water spigot to the cruisers dinghy dock behind their business. Tom threw the first set of jugs on board, then rigged a block and tackle to hoist them aboard. Much easier, although another cruiser said he uses a pump to offload the water right from the dinghy. We’ll have to look into that improvement!

Finally, we attended a musical jam session on shore yesterday. There are some very talented musicians here! Really fun to meet folks and sing along.

We plan to stay here through Christmas.