It's been announced that the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit is in Trinidad and Tobago this week for coordinated operations with the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force, explaining the helicopters flying over Chaguaramas yesterday. One of the listed locations for the exercises is Teteron Barracks, a military Trinidadian base right near the shipyards where many foreign sailing vessels are stored, including ours. For context, this area is located approximately 13.5 miles from Venezuela. The U.S. Embassy in Port of Spain said the training is aimed at tackling transnational threats, strengthening regional stability, and improving disaster-response capabilities. Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force officials added that the exercises support their efforts to reduce the flow of guns and drugs into Trinidad and Tobago.

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Iniziamo con le call. Oggi non ingrana. Ogni momento di pausa è dedicato alle commissioni: - Trovare centro assistenza Raymarine per inviare un pezzo ad aggiustare - fare la spesa - trovare e acquistare tutti i prodotti specifici per i lavori su Julia. Per esempio il primer, che lo abbiamo voluto al clorocaucciù. Che poi, come la chiedi in inglese o in francese una vernice al CLOROCAUCCIÙ? Clorocaucciù ragazzi, sfido chiunque a improvvisare un taboo in una lingua diversa dalla vostra con un commesso visibilmente confuso. Non vi consiglio nemmeno l’esperienza dei traduttori online 😂 insomma, siamo quasi arrivati ai mimi. 😂 Comunque le protagoniste assolute della giornata sono state le zanzare. Sono ovunque. In cabina, in bagno, dentro ai gavoni chiusi (ma come ci sono arrivate?!), dentro agli scarichi del pavimento del bagno, sopra il cuscino, in mezzo alla cucina. Ci credete? Ovunque. Se entri in cabina e chiudi la porta puoi sentire distintamente un ronzio simile alla vibrazione di un telefono. Un disastro! Vi lascio immaginare di notte. La ricerca più importante di oggi perciò è stata quella dei prodotti ammazza-zanzare. Tra zampironi e autan siamo quasi ciechi e intossicati, ma di zanzare neanche l’ombra 😂 Per concludere la giornata,’intorno alle 18:30 abbiamo iniziato a carteggiare l’opera viva. Domani finiremo e se riusciamo inizieremo a dare una mano di primer. Ci leggiamo domani! C. Ps: Voi raccontateci quanto è piacevole svegliarsi con una zanzara che ti ronza nell’orecchio 😂

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When Deb is not on board and I am working, I will use the large LED TV in the Salon as my monitor and sit on the salon settee. It is a bit more comfortable and I like the extra real estate for the screen. This was the case last week as I was sitting in the salon working. It was a great day because it was still warm but overcast so no bright sunlight for a change, I had the hatches all opened up and had a nice gentle breeze running through the boat. Half way through the call the wind started to pick up, then it started to pick up a lot, and I could hear the howling in the distance as the wind blew through the rigging of the row of sailboats just upwind of me. While on the call, I muted my microphone and closed the large forward hatch. As I finished that the sky opened up with a torrential rain pour. I was quickly closing the 4 hatches in the roof that I had open and another 7 opening ports on the side of the boat. All of this was going on while I was still on this conference call and un-muting the microphone to respond to a question or comment then muting as quickly as I could again. By the time the call ended, the wind was blowing a steady 20 knots and gusting to about 30. The rain subsided for the most part and when I went back up top, the temperature felt like it dropped 15 degrees in that hour. I continued to work the rest of the day on meetings and phone calls remotely, however the wind really had the boat hobby horsing and rocking pretty good. When the wind starts to blow that hard, there are a few interesting sounds that happen on the boat, that we are just used to, but others wonder what they are. I attached a small video below that shows me sitting on the salon settee working. You can get a sense for how much motion there was on the boat this day, and we were tied up to a dock. If you listen closely you can hear a few things in the background. The first is the wind that you can still hear howling if you listen carefully. This is with all of the hatches battened down and closed up tight. You will also hear a bit of a ringing sound or long dull clank. This sound is actually made from two different things that run up the inside of the mast. There are wires that run from the base of the mast to the top of the mast for lighting on top of the mast, antenna, etc. This is combined with the lines that run up the mast for raising the sails. When the boat rocks a certain way they hit on the inside of the mast making this sound. The other is a loud thump , this is actually something that you should not hear, but I still had an antenna for the TV run up on the flag halyard and when the wind would blow it hit the stays (the metal wires that run from the sides of the boat to the top of the mast to stabilize it). It is a lot like a giant piano or guitar string being plucked. So there you have it, a little insight into working from the boat. 98% of the time, it isn't much different than working from your office, but on some -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch: "How to repair a wooden mast, boom, spar or Bulkhead (Step by Step) " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nxr-yxUjvQ -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-

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