We slept last night in Lindberg Bay. It was noisier than we would have liked, but there was no room at Honeymoon Beach. Lindberg is a really nice big, pretty much unused bay with good holding.
We got up at 7am so we could eat breakfast and then be ready to be lifted in the Dry Dock at the scheduled 8:30am. Did I mention that we are in the Caribbean…..Island Time. By 10am it is decided that another boat who has kissed a coral head yesterday would be lifted with us. That is good since we will now "share" the cost of the haul. By 10:30am we are finally starting the lifting process. It takes a good hour to get us on block and to raise the dry dock. We are in the new dry dock, the one that can hold a 145ft.+ boat. We are dwarfed by its size. It is now noon, we are high & dry, and the guys go to lunch. After lunch they proceed to power wash the bottom and to start removing the prop, shaft, and bearing.
I am in our stateroom finishing up the unpacking and hear banging under my feet. I go running out…..they are pulling the wrong side! Gene(the owner) didn't tell the me3chanics the proper side. Whew! We almost had a disaster with the work being done on the wrong side. They then proceed to the starboard side and start removing the prop, etc. It takes the entire afternoon to unbolt everything and by 5pm (quitting time) they still don't have the shaft out. Manana. Did I mention Island Time.
Paul has taken the free time to reassemble our new salon deck chairs. When he put them together the first time he ended up with spare parts when there should have been none. I spend the afternoon cleaning up and putting away more things. The basement is finally cleaned….sawdust is gone. Thank goodness.
At 5:30pm we have cocktail hour on the aft deck with our dry dock partners. They are Andy and Lisa and are on a very pretty dark blue sail boat named Zingaro. It turns out that they have been in the Caribbean since Nov 09 having sailed down from Maryland. They own a sailing school in MD. And have been having their students come down to meet them here to continue their sailing education. They had to sent the most recent students home because of the damage and repairs.
We share Carib's and snacks and Pate' that Lisa brought from St. Maarten. We watch the Caribbean Princess leave the dock next to us and watch her head out to sea. I took pictures of her because the "Oasis of the Seas" will be coming in at 7am and I want to compare size.
After Andy & Lisa leave we have a quick dinner of Chicken Cordon Bleu and head to bed. We want to get up early to watch the arrival of "Oasis of the Seas"
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