bvi captains log blog

Well I have done my utter best to stay away from accounting this weekend, but I fear tomorrow is the day. Accounting is never my favorite thing to do! Instead today I thought I would show you some different pictures of "off season" maintenance!

This is the port side of our saloon. I did well this year and got the nice carpet rolled up BEFORE my husband put a ton of things (maintenance type things) on top of it. See that nice hole in the middle? Well that is where we used to have one of those old fashioned TV's, you know the ones, that weigh a billion tons and noone buys any more since flat screens came along? That area also stored a ton and a half of "Instructors Manuals" for SCUBA...Well, believe it or no, all that stuff is either on Discs or on the internet nowadays, so I THREW IT OUT! THROWING things out will be a common theme now.

I bet some would be able to guess what is going to go in that area! It will be two things, a nice FLAT SCREEN TV (better for me to watch satellite TV on when BAZZA gives in and gets me it for the boat!) and a place to store our coffee supplies for the morning. For the guests and Bazza, not for me! No caffeine for about 3 months now, but it still smells good! Along with our Playstation 3 we brought down with us, our projector screen and our SIRIUS radio that we also brought down out of the RV, it should be a nice little area.

On the starboard side of the salon, well, the table quickly came downstairs for the computers, and I think it is going to stay here this winter, and we will leave the coffee table upstairs in the cocktail area. Once I get some discipline and move all our stuff down to one end, it will give half the table for the guests to store their own computers, or eat, or play cards whatever. I just have to remind them NO WET SWIM SUITS down here at all!
My family will be able to tell (and Richard and Lisa) how much "decluttering" I have done on the shelves behind the couch here, that will open up more storage area for the guests.

This is a view that many have not seen before. These are MORE liquor cabinets underneath the couch cushions. They have all been cleaned out and organized and just waiting now to take on more liquor for the season!


My area is coming along quite nicely...Now lets walk upstairs to the cockpit. It is not looking quite as good as of yet! This is where the inverter is going (and moved and done by the end of the day!) This will get it out of the starboard ama, and allow the heat from it to dissipate somewhere other then inside the boat, which in this day of fuel cost is a very good idea!


And this is the other side of the cockpit, no not looking very "charter friendly" either!


Then I thought about accounting, (just thought about it mind you!) and found the treasures that the women from last week had forgotten on the back deck, so I gave those a clean.


Then I went looking for something else to do, besides accounting, played Wordscraper on Facebook for awhile, Played Scrabulous on line with Lisa for awhile (who was tucked up in a 4 poster bed in Belize at the time!)
Then I went and found some of Bazzas metal detecting treasures from the spring that were just sitting in a bucket and decided that was more important then doing accounting anyways!


After all this I was so tired I went for a nap. A wonderful nap, one of those three hour naps you do not get too often in the afternoon!
We had gotten a new sound system for our IPOD , a Griffin Wireless, so I popped in some music in the saloon for Bazza and just took one of the little speakers along for my nap with me. Cool, very cool. Now we just have to get guests NOT to thrown them overboard or leave them out in the rain!!

After arising there was a ton of bird activity behind the boat in the harbor. Pelicans sitting on every piece of boat and in the water with Booby Birds sitting on their heads! Now for my sage advice for the day...when you break your very expensive long lens on your expensive camera and it is in the shop...DO NOT go into the store and buy the cheapest long lens you can find (maybe a hundred and odd dollars) thinking, "this will be fine until mine gets back" After all, how bad can it be.
It is bad, very bad, and just a complete and utter waste of money! I tooked 50-60 pictures of the birds, these few are the only ones, even with some heavy work in Photoshop that i can even put on the blog!

And not that you will be able to see them, but there is two pelicans on this little boat tied up near the mangroves, but I thought the boat was an OK picture anyways
By this time it is about 6 and Bazza asked me if I wanted to go out and take pictures of the Iron Duke on the cruise ship dock! Bonus, another excuse not to do the accounting today, so off we went. No security up around this puppy, I wondered if I was going to be arrested as I took my pictures, but I figured the fact that I was a female, elderly, with a green lace nightgown on would run in my favor (maybe they had not seen a women for months or something and I was looking alluring!...I know, I can hear you rolling on the floor with mirth now!)




Then it was time to make dinner, time to do the blog and now bed time!

Here is a link to the BVI Beacons full article on the refinancing of Scrub Development. The online versions only has a portion of the story, and you need all the details to understand it! No matter which way you cut it, Scrub Island sounds like a mess, financially and environmentally. (As I look around for the lighting bolt to hit me out of the blue as I type)
The PDF link is here.