Yard Period

I've been back in the States for almost two months now and it has flown by so quickly. Starting out in West Palm Beach in a marina called "Rybovich." Rybo is one of the nicest marinas in the entire world and now I'm completely spoiled and now understand why it's so amazing.

Free shuttle
Free gym open 24/7
pool
fire pit
restaurant with huge TV's all over the place
free yoga on certain nights of the week
movie nights
high security

The marina is one of a kind and I couldn't have started out with a cooler place to be while in the yard. Our boat was taken completely out of the water and the bottom of the boat was painted and some of the shafts were replaced or repaired. While we were there, my parents came to see where I work and get more of a a feel of what I really do on a day to day basis even though it's still hard to even get the full picture unless you truly live in my shoes. It's so hard to explain without a true picture. They were here for about a week, was able to travel around florida, see West Palm, Fort Lauderdale and Miami with them, which is always a treat because I thought the entire time I would be working while they were visiting.

After a month in Rybo we moved the boat down to Bradford Marina in Fort Lauderdale which I was so excited for because I would be close to a lot more of my friends and knew Fort Lauderdale like the back of my hand because I had just spent a solid two months with no car searching for a job in Ft. Laudy.  But I was so wrong. Bradford is a shit marina far away from everyone and everything. Not close to any other boat yards and is for all smaller boat and mostly boat that are for sale. Once again no car and a cab ride into the main ft. Lauderdale is over $25 one-way. That ended u[ being a HUGE buzz kill as soon as I paid once to get to the beach and back.

It's now been about two weeks in Bradford and we are doing so much construction on the boat it's hard for me to even see the light at the end of the tunnel. The boat is completely torn apart. Everything is getting repainted, fixed, torn down, put back up, tents over the entire boat, dusty and dirty. It's a mess and we leave here March 15th to get back to the Bahamas for another three weeks of charters.  

In turn we have been making so many trips out to do provisions for the charters as well as the crew. We've been living off of small amounts of stuff for the crew because we were away for the season and everything in the Grenadine Islands was almost five times the price of something here in the States. I was in charge of making the list of what the crew needed. Keep in mind that anything I wrote down on the list was paid by the boat and given to the crew. Just a few items I listed:

Aussie shampoo/conditioner
face wash/masks
makeup remover
deodorant
loofas
mouth wash
tooth paste
whitening stripes
tooth brushes
venus razors
gum
cliff bars
72% chocolate
tomato juice...The list goes on

But pretty much anything we want we can get. We are provided with shoes, bathing suits, uniform, fleece jackets, rain jackets, towels etc. to get us through our trips. It's amazing the amount of effort given for provisioning. We did a Costco run today and had 6 carts full of groceries and still have another full day of running around and getting specific things to get ready for our trips.

Just if anyone was wondering, I'm still loving every second of my job but now getting anxious again to get back out in the open sea and see more of the world.

We have three weeks in the Bahamas then back to the US for one week then crossing the ocean for the Mediterranean season. I will be in Europe all summer, most likely into fall and I would love to stay over there for winter but more than likely will be back on this side of the world by October or November.

Wish I could post pictures of some of the last month but of course my computer isn't working at the moment so hopefully I can work on it and then post a little later.

Peace&Love