Arrived in Trinidad

Before we left Belem we had great expectations of making new records regarding daily sailed distances on our way up to The Caribbean. From what we could read, the currents should be strong and with us, and so should the winds. The winds however turned out to be close to absent the first week and had it not been for the strong currents we would have had problems reaching here before our visitors from Norway. (As you can see there were no "200nm sailed last 24hrs" in the posts from the last leg.)

During the last leg Jon decided to skip the Christmas celebration in Beque as the rest of Bonanza is doing and head home for wet snow, freezing temperatures, a life with shoes on his feet, home made bread, a toilet that doesn't move, and a Christmas with the family. A week or two to adjust back to normal life before he starts working is probably not a bad idea.

As we are here in Chaguaramas bay waiting for our visitors we are checking prizes on the work we want to have done on the boat in january when we come back. The boat is still in a generally good condition, but as all sailors know, there is always something that needs to be done on a boat.