Saturday, March 14, 2009 8:36:01 AM Location: Samana Anchorage Latitude is 0 degrees 0 minutes north. Longitude is 0 degrees 0 minutes west. This weather observation was at Saturday, March 14, 2009 8:18:59 AM local time. Observation location: Santa Barbara de Samana. Latitude is 0 degrees 0 minutes north. Longitude is 0 degrees 0 minutes west. The air temperature is 82, and water temperature is 0 degrees fahrenheit. The forecast is Sunny. The current weather is dry. The sky is scattered clouds (10 - 50% clouds). The wind is 8 knots from the east. The visibility is 10 nautical miles. The wave height is 0 feet with 0 foot swells. The barometer is 1024 millibars and rising. Yesterday was busy. I invited Emily Grace (Tom Lawler's N46-20), Pelican Bay (Marty's Kaddy Krogen 42) and Whiskers a catamaran over for snacks and drinks that evening. So, the morning was spent cleaning up Jenny. It's nice to have a pleasure event to drive you to do what needed to be done anyway. With Jenny all shiny, I went in to shore with Emily Grace and Pelican Bay to do some shopping and show them the town. They were pleasantly surprised having read Van Saints decade old description. This town has a lot to offer. Whiskers stopped by the pharmacy I pointed them to and thanked me profusely for doing so. The prices there are incredible, maybe 1/10 or 1/20 of what they are in the states and no prescriptions needed. They got 3 courses of Ciprol for something like $2.00 and their heart medicine for next to nothing too. My Lisinoprol was costing about $1.80 per pill in Colombia and I got it here for $.30 per pill. I'm going to stock up before I leave. But, the price is pharmacy specific. The other one I went to here was the same price as Colombia. On my list was a new set of glasses. Over the past 18 months some disappeared, some were broken, some left on other boats. It was time since I no longer had enough for the company that evening. I found a nice set of six short glasses and a nice set of medium sized tall ones. While parting with old glasses is a little sad, it is really nice to have new shiny ones. The short glasses worked great for rum and soda and the tall ones worked great for the crevasas. I was worried about the tall ones being thrown about in the cabinet, but figured out they would be fine standing in a cup cake tin. I love it when I make these little discoveries. The party was a lot of fun with good people and munchies. The three other boats are waiting here for weather before heading across the Mona Passage to Puerto Rico. They all are headed for Trinidad for the hurricane season. They will need to really focus on moving to make it down there by June. Nicholas thoroughly enjoyed the company. Emily Grace brought their daughter over and they had fun. Both Emily Grace and Bay Pelican have Magma or Magma copy flopper stoppers and they seem to work well. They only deploy on one side though due to their lack of TPS rigging. They both have hydraulic stabilizers. Tom has done an incredible amount of work on Emily Grace. He is inventive and an expert cabinet maker from what I saw. Powered by BoatExec http://www.BoatExec.com David A Schramm M/V Jenny Current <http://www.winlink.org/dotnet/maps/PositionReportsDetail.aspx?callsign=KI6C EL> Location (blue pin) Jenny Journey Log <http://groups.google.com/group/jennyjourney>