Friday 2nd January,  2015

Jolly Harbour Marina, Antigua 17 04.2N 61 53.2W

Today's Blog by David (Time zone: UTC -4.0)

The kids having left on Sunday 28th, we had three days of doing boat stuff before the onset New Year.  It's amazing what you can get fixed when you apply yourself - and really frustrating when you find that the spare part that you have carried all around the world - and have been meaning to fit but never quite got round to ever since you found out it was necessary - when actually offered up (that is a technical term) to the fitting,  you can see, quite plainly it is the spare for quite another – completely different -  system altogether.

Anyway - we did get a lot done and then had a well earned night off at a  New Year's Eve party courtesy of Paul and Trish of  Babe (another Oyster World Rally yacht) and the fireworks display in the Harbour. (I am glad we have seen in a New Year in English Harbour but we wouldn’t rush to celebrate there again.)

On New Year’s Day, the crew having had time off to allow them to nurse various hangovers, we slipped our mooring and went to lie at anchor in Galleons’ Reach.  By the morning, the grand children’s legacy cold had so gripped Grannie that we needed a pharmacy visit ASAP; thus we cut short our sojourn in that idyllic anchorage and headed for Jolly Harbour again where we will await the arrival of our guests, Sandra and Tim.