I returned to Grenada this week to oversee the final repairs. The list of items needing fixing was over 20, with five or six being critical.
As I have discussed, a modern sailboat is like a mini off-grid environment. Energy is the core backbone of the environment. The frame around the main solar panels cracked on the passage and needed to be repaired. That is done. The panels are back. And REIMAGINED is collecting rays from the sun and turning them into electricity.
The energy backup comes from running the engines. A pair of remarkably high-energy alternators called integrals will hopefully be fixed on Monday.
With these items fixed, the vessel is ready to leave the marina. But a few small items, like fridges and electronics, that make things comfortable, and so they need to be fixed (eta tbd).
People often talk about island time—a slowed-down, chill pace of living. Well, sailing time is even slower than island time. Things in the sailing community move really slowly when dealing with vendors to fix items or deliver parts.
The marina is much busier than when I was here a week and a half ago. It is Grenada Independence Day on Friday. (Happy Independence Day, Grenada!) and several Atlantic crossing flotillas are arriving (from the med)
At some point soon REIMAGINED will begin heading north.
Almost a year later, I heard that the devastation from Hurricane Beryl was still brutal in the islands just north of Grenada. With all these natural disasters everywhere, who said global warming is not real?
But the next leg requires addressing this long list of to-dos at the speed of “sailing time.” So we will see
