Paradise blues
Admin | Friday, October 2, 2009 at 4:26AM Our time in Grenada seems too long now. We would like to move on and discover new horizons again. However, the hurricane season is not quite yet finished and we still have few things to sort out.
After more than a month of discussion to try to find a way to do Merlins’ repairs – and of course be paid back for that, we had a great email from our insurance saying we took up lot of his time. Reading this kind of comment early the morning (when we check emails) brightens our day straight away.
The insurance of the boat which crashed into us wasn’t ready to pay the full bill. We decided not to go the legal way as suggested by our insurer as we had to pay in advance all these costs and it was too much money. So we decided to put in a claim on our side (knowing we will loose our excess for that). Our insurance is not happy about that and they are not ready to pay back anything else than the repairs. As it is not in our policy, the insurance company will not pay for accommodation even if the products used for the repairs were declared by one boat yard as dangerous (especially for kids). We also thought that the report done by a surveyor (declaring the boat doesn’t have any structural problem after the repairs) would be paid back by them as they were asking for it before.
We’ve just booked the boat yard for the 12th of October. We should be out of the water for 10 days …painting the bottom with new antifouling while the yard is fixing Merlin's "cut".
Merlins’ motors are also not too happy. There is some white smoke coming out the exhaust. Christian, our mechanical friend from J Le Goeland (our neighbors at the anchorage) gave us advice and is ready to help Greg for a full service. However, the 1st thing he recommended was to change the oil and use synthetic oil. Greg went all over the island during two days to try to find some but it seems to be something which doesn’t exist here. So we’ll have to have some imported from Trinidad when our friends from Extasea are coming to Grenada.
We are also still waiting for Victor’s CNED to arrive. A second parcel with all his books was sent again more than two weeks ago. Thankfully someone gave us old books so we could start school with him too. He reached a point now where he needs to do some of his evaluations (in fact he is ready to do 8 of them).
Some hassles but we could have worst. We are all healthy; the kids are growing happily and enjoying the warm and sunny weather in Grenada.