Thursday, August 30, 2012

Saturday, November 25, 1995 - Trinidad

A boat about half a mile from us caught fire this morning. The people were calling for help on the VHF. Several dinghies zoomed over there and soon had the fire under control. On the net this morning, the guy on Itchy announced that he had charts and guides to the Windward and Leeward islands that he wanted to swap, so I contacted him and arranged to meet him later this morning at TTYA. Roy went with me. We carried our umbrellas, because it was sprinkling when we left the boat. By the time we got on the bus, it was pouring. I couldn't see out the fogged-up windows, so I told the driver we wanted to get out at TTYA. He confused TTYA with TTYC. When the rain let up and I could see, I was fairly certain we'd gone past the TTYA, but the driver kept insisting it was farther. We finally got to the TTYC, which is about five miles farther down the road, got out of the maxi, crossed the road, and caught a bus back to the TTYA. The guy from Itchy had four charts and two guides that we could use. He was on his way west, so we took him back to the Jofian and showed him a bunch of charts of the Western Caribbean. He picked out the ones he wanted, and we had a deal. Both of us came out ahead.

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