Mark:
How about an update on how St. Martin recovering? Any effects that you have noticed on your lifestyle since the storm? Especially interested what became of that Nonsuch Destin

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Theres at least 25 boats still ashore. Most of them derelicts i.e. No salvage value and expensive to move. The salvage companies are pretty well on top of everything thats going to pay bills. After that and as the tourist season gets underway the French government is going to have to pay for the removal of about 10 boats on its Marigot tourist beach.
The ones in the Lagoon are a different matter as there are boats splatter about going back through past hurricanes years and years...
Still a few with sails flapping, known owners on island etc. just disgraceful, but if you dont have money what can you do?
Theres still some people doing it very hard with no money, no boat, dontated clothes, no way out. Thats difficult. Those that can find jobs and start again, will, I suppose. The rest need to be repatriated to their come country by the host country.
The general lifestyle here is fine. Its been a spark to the economy, brutal to say, but disasters make people spend money, and makes the workers work hard in a down time part of the season.
Cruise ship passengers would see no difference at all... Nor would anyone else unless they book a hotel in Margot and find a wreck on their beach.