Despite my best efforts John remains polite and civilized. Not even cheap beer nor curvy Caribbean girls seems to have an effect!

After solving a minor stuffing box crises (leaking propeller shaft) with superior logic we have settled on a departure tomorrow afternoon heading north.

Our first landfall will be largely dictated by prevailing winds - somewhere in the Caribbean between 4 and 8 days. Our next sojourn into cyberland is even less predictable.

Off now to the alter (galley) to sacrifice a chicken (soup) to the wind and sea gods.

till later,

Simon