Friday 8th December 2017
Yesterday (Thursday) was
a difficult day as I woke up with horrible vertigo. Immediately I sat up everything
started spinning in an uncontrolled and nauseating way. I managed to stagger over to the bathrooms and
then took a seasick tablet when I got back to the boat. After half an hour
sitting in the cockpit, whilst I ran the engines and re-charged the batteries
and cooled the freezer, I didn’t feel much better so I took a second Stugeron
and went back to bed. I got up again at about 10 am feeling slightly better and
cycled into Road Town to check moorings in the harbor and get some exercise. It
went fine and I took the opportunity to stop by the frozen yoghurt shop for a “pick-me-up”!
On the way back I decided to take a short detour in Sea Cow Bay and check out
the horse-racing course, where I had heard that Irma blew down the stadium. I
was shocked to see the twisted girders and debris. You can still just about clamber
up onto some of the bleachers but even I started to wonder if this was a wise
move. There were a few race horses out in the fields around the track, one in
particular was close to the stadium, but looked in poor shape. I heard that
many of the horses died during the storm.
When I got back to Nanny Cay Marina, I got a call to say
that the new bolt for my inner forestay “high field lever” was ready. Randy
(who appears in the photos of blog "Up the hill" ) did a great job machining a replacement
for the one I lost. With the parts in hand it was an easy job to reassemble the
inner forestay (see below) – which is good, because with the trade winds blowing we are
going to need to use the stay sail a lot. I was also able to fit an additional
cam cleat in the cockpit to help control the mainsail reefing lines.
After a lovely long chat with Gloria, I spent a quiet
evening eating left over chili and fried potatoes. Only 5 days until Gloria
arrives!
Horse racing stadium in Sea Cow Bay - destroyed by Irma
View of the stands
The bleachers
Abstract bleachers
Sad and skinny looking horse, with actual track behind
Total devastation - a house down hill from the stadium (in background) - amongst other things a large tree collapsed on the buildings
The inner forestay - high field lever. The new machined bolt is top left.
Did you take stugeron on the passage? It worked really well for Ron and I. We had calm seas but we didn’t have any sea sickness at all. Jackie however started by using bonine and she was extremely sea sick for two days.
ReplyDeleteI used scopolamine patches for the passage, augmented with Stugeron when the going got rough. I do think Stugeron is effective.
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