Trompeta sold

After several months of wrangling with the Surveyor acting for our Insurers we have taken the decision to sell Trompeta as she stands and Monday this week saw us complete on the deal through BVI Yacht Sales. At least the new owner who is a Scottish businessman will have a boat that has a working engine and generator and water maker unlike our purchase where nothing worked!

It us quite sad in a way as Trompeta has given us many happy memories and she is certainly the right yacht to have undertaken our circumnavigation as we felt completely safe whatever the weather.

So this is our final blog for Trompeta and we wish her and her new owner the very best.

Nanny Cay BVI

Yesterday we motored down to Nanny Cay Marina where there is a hurricane storage area and we had Trompeta hauled out of the water to put her on the hard for the summer. Trompeta was downwind of a fire (8 April) close to the dock where she was berthed at Village Cay and as a result has suffered some heat damage - mainly on the port side- which we are having to submit an insurance claim for repairs. The surveyor acting for our Insurers Admiral is Benson and he was there at Nanny Cay to watch Trompeta get hauled out as he wants to do some further investigation on the hull where there are two vertical cracks in the gel coat above water line level to try and determine if the divinycell core has been damaged. At the moment we are getting estimates from different contractors for the various work to be done as well as the hull a lot of our canvas has tiny burn holes in where sparks and cinders fell on the bimini and dodger and hatch covers.  The boat yard Manager Keith has advised us we can have work done on the boat where she is at the moment until 1 July so we have a few weeks for things to be done.

Anyway on the positive side the boat is looking good below water level and the work done by Grenada Marine means she is pristine underneath! Above deck we need to replace some of the teak decking as part of the fire claim so will probably get the whole deck re caulked as overall the teak is still good. Once everything is done she will be in good shape again.

There is another HR42 called Matilda who is in the boat yard near to us which completed the World ARC at the same time as we did and there is a new owner who is doing repairs to her having bought the boat last year he is still working on her!

Trompeta will stay in Nanny Cay until the end of the hurricane season and all the work is completed we will then put her back on the market for sale.