Perigee Sailboat

It's time to put new anti-fouling paint on Perigee, so we arranged to be hauled out of the water at Curacao Marine. The process will take about a week. Out on Monday morning and 'splash' back on Friday afternoon. We've arrived early and are having a couple of days on the dock for some minor boat projects - like fixing the air-conditioning. Here is the view from the cockpit. Our water hose runs all the way to the pedestal circled in red. Approximately 20 meters to the bow of the boat and the power cable runs to the pedestal circled in yellow to the stern of the boat. We feed the water hose in through the galley porthole (kitchen window) and use the sun heated water for our dishes. This saves us from having to run the water-maker in the marina. Generally the sea water quality is pretty poor in marinas and Curacao Marine is no different. Being in a Marina means not facing into the wind and not having those lovely over the water cooling breezes, however it does mean th

  Willemstad Harbour The flag I have always been fascinated by flags and try to recognise as many as I can. It is useful as boats are required to fly their National Ensign / flag of registration. Often cruisers will fly a small country flag on the port flag halyard indicating their nationality if it is not the same as the place the boat is registered. So for example you could have a Swiss guy married to a Belgium living on a Panamanian registered vessel with guests from England and France. They would fly the Panamanian flag at the stern and could fly a Swiss, Belgian, UK (or English) & French flag on the port flag halyard. The starboard flag halyard is reserved for the country courtesy flag. Flag flying on boats is steeped in history, tradition and maritime law. Knowing the meaning of a flag is not only interesting but it helps me to recongnise it too. The Curaçaoan flag is blue with a horizontal yellow stripe slightly below the midline and two white, five-pointed stars .