Launch Day in Trinidad

10 40.65 N 61 38.26 W

December,2005

After a great weekend of skiing in Upstate, N.Y., to celebrate Tom's 70th birthday, we returned to Trinidad to get ready for another season of cruising. We shed our parkas and got out the shorts and tee shirts and set to work. Most of the work had been completed (details in Trip Report 1-2006)and after a few days, the boat was launched.

Christmas crept up on us as we finished the myriad chores of provisioning and preparing the boat to set sail. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day found us at festive pot luck dinners with other cruisers. In a setting of hot weather and swaying palm trees, it was unlike any other Christmas Past.

We will soon set sail for Venezuela and will ring the New Year in quietly in Los Testigos, islands off the Venezuelan coast. We wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2006.

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