• 2023 Season

    Grenada - looking good!

    We've spent a few weeks at the Grenada Yacht Club waiting for the fuel injector pump, so to keep busy we've made 4 new sun awnings to shade the deck, portholes and the like.

  • 2023 Season

    Grenanda - getting closer

    With no engine and no wind, the Coastguard were a welcome - if embarrassing - sight. They very kindly towed us to the mooring buoys outside the capital, St George.

  • 2023 Season

    Launch day

    Peake's put us back in the water today. Next, Customs and Immigration then fuel up.

  • 2023 Season

    Back in Trinidad

    We have been venturing out whilst getting the boat ready to put back in the water. Today, a visit to a pineapple farm.

  • Trinidad

    Time to Go

    We have been lifted out at Peake's Yard and Kelper is all stripped, packed down and scrubbed out. This is where we will leave her until April 2023.

  • Trinidad

    The Brewsters

    This is Earl and Helena Brewster. Earl performed my emergency caesarean 23 years ago and delivered Tom. They have been fabulous hosts and it has been lovely to meet up again.

  • Trinidad

    Dancing the beans

    After harvesting the pods, the beans are laid out under moveable roofs. Backin the day, the workers walked through the beans turning them with their feet to help the drying process. This estate still ...