As soon as we arrived onto the boatyard, the lift operator, Rick came straight across to say they were ready to lift us back in. We quickly went onboard to put our bags on, then I went to the office to pay our bill while Kevin supervised the lift. When it was in the slings, they then completed the areas which had not been antifouled due to the position of the chocks / stands. We were soon back in the water though, it is a very controlled procedure with the guys from the yard, with their laid back attitude borne from much experience. When we were lifted in Rick had to move the boat forward to the edge of the lifting bay to let Kevin jump off, Kevin out of instinct said mind the corner, Rick’s response was “Never one scratch”, which we believed from the calm controlled manner he operated.
Invincible going back into the water
We went to fill up with diesel then before taking our berth at the marina, all of which was done between heavy downpours. Once moored we had a few jobs to do, number one of which was to try and sort out the problems with the electronics on the boat, so I went straight to Regis Electronics at the marina to let Jon know that we were in a berth as he had now had permission from Raymarine to perform a master reset on our C80 chartplotter to see if that would work in getting it to boot up. Jon was going to come down after 2pm, so after unpacking we settled in with some local sailing magazines now the sun was out to enjoy being back on our boat.
When Jon came down and did his master reset (pressing down a softkey whilst switching on), it worked straight away which was quite annoying as we had had no radar or chart plotter half way across the Atlantic and we could have easily done this ourselves. Infact I think Kevin had tried every combination of keys but that one trying to work out how it was done. Next time I think we will email Raymarine technical support from the boat to ask for help, although we could now do the rest ourselves, although this does loose all waypoints and tracks stored.
Kevin also did some research on where we will be visiting next (we are checked into the Marina until Friday morning), firstly we will be moored just outside the marina off the beach on the other side of the peninsular which we are looking forward to already as the ability to jump in for a swim in this heat is a definite bonus. We are waiting for some spares to arrive by post so we will wait here until they arrive. Then we will move onto Marigot Bay which is supposed to be one of the most beautiful on the island and has another big marina and facilities, though we will probably anchor. We will then go to Soufriere which is a UNESCO World heritage site, a bay which sits between the two famous Piton hills of St Lucia, there are also Sulphur pools and warm springs to bathe in ashore. Finally we may also stop in Vieux Fort before moving on to the next island of St. Vincent. There has been attacks on cruisers in St. Vincent recently so we will not be touring that island, though as Kevin is a fan of Pirates of the Caribbean we may stop in at the film set in one of the bays there on the way past. We are aiming to be in Bequia a small island which is part of the Grenadines group for Christmas as we understand this is where a number of cruisers end up for the festive celebrations. It is also supposed to be quite unspoilt with no direct international flights, it is therefore mostly only visited by sailors and has a number of beautiful beaches and even turtles nesting on some.
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