the good news was seth imediatly offeeed me a job for 20$ an hour helping him unscrew everything. i rejected this offer imediatlly and spent the next 3 days working for free while we negotiated the final hourly rate, 20$ per hour. i do get a bit more for working with 220 volt electric stuff.
i even got roped into a 2 hour "tour" around the island to do a storage run stop in grand case for ribs and check out the hurricane damage. the ribs where great the boats on the beach on the french side where not. very depressing, i talked to some people who had lost boats when one of the marines disintegrated and took all boats down with it. no one had insurance and people lost there whole life, dont know how i would cope with that sort of thing. one of the guys working on seths boat ended up in the water at the peak of the storm swimming after his boat. he never caught the boat but managed to get to shore and pulled out just before the marina collapsed around him. he is selling his 45 foot steel ketch for 20k and moving ashore.
dont really have time to blog any more as i get docked pay whenever using the internet on sea forever, i did set the internet up with a wirless router and a local sim. we get 2G for 32$ per month not a bad deal. palapa needs a bit of work. i did finally get up the mast and fix the windex and replace the camera (700$) set me back a week of work.
did not even get veterans day off, they remamed it st martin day here,, but i am getting paid (so far). feel a bit like the dude in office space who ends up working construction. i may even have a couple of captin only charters this season. alas not looking good for making it through the canal in jan but you cant have everything
cheers
roger
