Bouqueron, Puerto Rico

Oh, where does the time go?  It was another absolutely gorgeous morning and made it difficult to get motivated to do much.  We were content in just relaxing and drinking coffee in the cockpit.  We finally did get a little energy and Larry put the clips on the panels I’d made to close up the cockpit.  It was something we were trying to get done before we left Florida but wasn’t about to delay departure for something so insignificant.  They were easy to do remotely, but we just needed the desire to complete the task!

Yesterday, when we were ashore, we met a couple from Holland.  Their names were Wytze and Mia Veltman (boat name SKUA) and they were in their 70’s.  They’d been sailing (all the way from Holland) for the past 13 years!  Very interesting couple.  They were headed to New York City and wanted to be there within a month or so.  Too bad they were headed in the opposite direction.  They had a world of knowledge to share and it would have been nice to have spent more time with them.

Today, they came over to our boat.  We have a bunch of charts, etc that we won’t need anymore and Larry was anxious to see if he could sell/trade them.  Wytze/Mia bought our (3) 2004 Bahamas charts (Near Bahamas, Exumas, Far Bahamas) for $100.  They asked if we would throw in the 2013 Bahamas Cruising Guide.  Now, we don’t really need this anymore but it was a brand new book and we paid about $70 for it back in November!  I would have liked to have gotten more money for it but I am not the negotiator.  Larry turned to me and said, what do you think?  Feeling put on the spot, I said sure, I guess … just throw it in.  STUPID … STUPID … STUPID!!!  They were already buying 3 very old charts for $100 … why throw in a book worth more than ½ of that???  So, what started as a really good deal, ended up not so great but we got rid of 3 old chart books that we really didn’t want hanging around AND a cruising guide that we probably could have easily sold another time AND a really old chart of the New York area (from the late 80’s) all for a total of $110.  Oh well, lesson learned.  Larry now knows not to include me in these negotiation practices … I HOPE!!!

We went into town for dinner and to people watch.  We wanted to see the transformation of Bouqueron into “party central”.  We were extremely disappointed.  There were probably about 4 times the # of people as “normal” but it was far from the atmosphere I expected.  I expected more of a Key West attitude!  Maybe it needed to be a long weekend or something OR maybe the PR idea of a party place is very different from ours?  In any case, we hung for a while but got bored and headed back to the boat.