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Winterlude: Port Royal, Roatan, Bay Islands

What A Difference Two Weeks Makes! … Port Royal Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras… where it's Election Day … Sunday, November 29, 2009. Given the upheaval in Honduras …although it's Election Day, here "down island", all is quiet. It's also sunny, a big change from the last several days. Into every paradise a bit of rain must fall … and maintenance intrude and that's a good summary of our two weeks! I am amazed and quite proud of David with all the maintenance headaches ... I didn't realize he could change a salt water pump or do alot of the other serious projects he's just successfully completed. He wasn't happy about it, but it's done & it works! :)

Thanksgiving evening, we had a weather "trough" park on top of us. It was nice enough to wait until we were ready to get in our dinghies to head back to the boats … but we were dripping before we were even away from the dock. I guess the 5" of water in the bottom of the dinghy should have been a clue! If you're not familiar with what happens when a trough stalls in the tropics, we had "biblical" rains – filled 2 water tanks – 35 gallons each within just a few hours Thanksgiving evening and then had 2 more days of torrential rains. Our dodger & bimini immediately forgot the two coats of waterproofing I just applied in Shelter Bay Marina, Colon, less than a month ago. As a result, we have no dry family room and we have leaks we've never seen before – including unfortunately a leak somewhere in back of the navigation desk – that has at least temporarily wiped out my little EEEPc laptop. That's why you always travel with backups! I won't leave this MacBook sitting on the nav desk, that's for sure!

Last update, Winterlude was still in Providencia, roughly 500 miles south and east of Roatan, thinking...

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