Happy New Year – here’s to a fantastic 2024!
We were settled back onboard Crimson Kathryn by 12:30pm on Dec. 31. We drove straight down (saving the cost of a night in a hotel) and found the boat in good condition. We spent New Year’s Eve eating a lovely pork tenderloin dinner and then falling asleep around 9pm!!
A few things were not great at our marina. The showers were supposed to be fixed before Christmas and as all repair jobs go, they’re still not working. No problem because we can shower onboard. The bigger problem is that their wifi is down 😳😳!! So here we are sitting in a Starbucks using their wifi. This first post back will need to be short!
We’ve already managed to do a few things in our 2 days back onboard. Yesterday (Jan. 1) we emptied the car and filled the boat with all the groceries we bought in Kingston. With the crazy prize of food down here (some prices are the same here as in Canada but then you have to add in the exchange) we decided to shop at our local Costco to get as much of the non-perishable items as possible. We now have a very full pantry behind our main cabin cushion. Mark washed the deck (birds were not kind to our boat while we were gone) and we filled one of our water tanks (showering onboard will use up our water more quickly).
New Year’s Day early evening was spent in the wonderful company of Julia and Brad (Alizarin) and Sharon and Rick (Orkan). We had a great happy hour and met 3 new cruisers – Gavin on a 52ft Island Packet and Cathy and Andy on a trawler (Julia and Brad are rafted with Cathy and Andy on a mooring ball ). It was lots of fun and great to see old friends and meet new people. We decided to take the dinghy down to the City marina (which is where everyone is – besides us) so we had a rather cool ride back to our marina after sunset!
Here’s hoping our marina fixes the wifi today and then I can write a longer post! Enjoy the first few days of 2024!
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 