" A LADY TRIP " Around the World ( Presently in the Dutch West Indies )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Tue 12 Jan 2010 22:57
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MONDAY 11th January 2010
Up early and Donal went for a big splash and
swim,
We got hold of Doyle Sails on the phone ( Rob ) and
arranged to have the sail collected in the afternoon.
Donal and Kevin sorted out the halyards up forward
while the skipper did the blog and some emails, etc
Donals wardrobe is hillarious, tee shirts going
back to the days of " Pyewacket", " Jap " , Flica , etc
Later we put the rib in the water and explored this
magnificant bay.
We went ashore to the " CURACAO YACHT CLUB " as we
thought this was very close and a good spot to have the sail
collected,
What a land we got, they were very much on the
unhelpfull side of things, and basically told us to piss off and take our sail
somewhere else.
They were more of a motor boat type club, full of
arseholes. who probably think their PISS IS PORTWINE..
As the day wore on, we dropped Aileen, ( the
ambassadore ) ashore and she got a taxi into " Williamstad " , the main
town on CURACAO.
the rest of us went swimming and polished up the
waterline while we were in the water, and scraped off lots of little barnicles
on the rudder.
Later we dropped the sail ashore to another club
and met the sailmaker " Rob " who promised he would have it ready by early
tomorrow.
17.30 The Skipper, Donal and Kevin, joined
Aileen in " Williamstad" and went to " The Govener Restaurant " ,
overlooking the river.
It was
spectacular, A floating bridge about about 300m long regularly opened and closed
while we were there, hinged at one
end ,it
had an engine and prop at the other end, which drove the bridge to open and
close.
Ships
and Tankers went by all night and all the pritty little Dutch Houses on the far
side of the river helped complete
a real
pritty picture.
23.00 We returned to the boat, had a night
cap, and hit the bunk's zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..
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