MMC on the yard

Last drinks in SXM

Coal mining

Our new genoa

The cockpit drains were f****d!

After our bbq bonanza. To the left: BARRACUDA, to the right LARKA and her owner Igor.

BIRKA is still there

Shipyard romantic

Putting things back together.

Back on Barracuda

Last night around ten we arrived in Cartagena, Colombia. It was a bit of a culture clash after all the shinyness and glamour of the St. Maarten yachting world, but it was a good one. The cab ride through the suburbs brought us back in the South American vibe quickly.
To our delight Barracuda was still standing where we left her over five months ago, the lock wasn't majorly seazed up so we could even get in. Overall the boat seems to be in a quite alright condition ( should I say that without having started the engine?), dry inside, just very, very dusty, but we're working on that right now.


The first selfmade cup of tea. Olly's happy.

It took us half a day to get the dust of the deck.

MMC

It's still a lot hotter here than it was in SXM. Time for a siesta.

Yesyesyes!

Back to Barracuda

Our time in St. Maarten comes to an end, the flights back to Cartagena, Colombia are booked. We will be leaving on Saturday the 17th.
There's still some work on the boat to be done, we expect to fixing old Barracuda up for about two weeks and then head for Colón, Panamá and to the Canal straight away.

It won't be easy to leave all the good friends we've made here, but hopefully we'll meet all of you guys again in some corner of the earth! Thanks to you we had a really good time here!

We managed to save up a little bit of money here, hopefully it will get us to Australia, where we will try and find some work again.

You'll hear from us once we're back on the boat with some updates on the situation.

Update St. Martin

Dear followers, we're still alive!
Although we've been struggling a little bit in the last weeks; Without work and living on a good friend's boat without any facilities. Even the super rich seem to keep their money together nowadays...
But for the last few days we're working again, doing small jobs for people on the boat-yards. So hopefully work keeps on coming now and we'll be able to save some money for our trip top to the Pacific!
Laszlo

With Henrik and Kiki at the Yacht Club

Who wouldn't want to empoy these people?

Vamos

Some photos taken aboard our recent home 'Vamos'.

SXM

Back in St Martin and jumped on work.
Yes, Soggy's is still here!

Nearly there

The deck is painted, I'm busy prepating the boat for the 5 months we'll leave it here.
And on monday I leave lovely Colombia by plane with Birka, heading for St. Martin, money wants to be earned.