" A LADY TRIP" SAILING AROUND THE WORLD, avoiding the recession ( presently the San Blas Islands )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Fri 22 Jan 2010 13:39
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Thursday 21st January 2010
07.00 The skipper was up bright and
early, To day is Paul O'Sullivan's Birthday . ( Paul is married to
our daughter "Sarah" )
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY PAUL
Its a
beautifull morning at this tiny little island, with just 4 boats around us, one
being " Pylades", our friends Fergus and Kay.
We spent some
time catching up on emails and swimming around for some exercise.
We went aboard
" Pylades" for morning Coffee, and catch up on the news,
& swopping stories about our adventures so far,
This was followed by a trip ashore to this picturesque Island and Aileen bought
some dainty hand made covers, Almost the entire crew bought
some items of
local culture..
The
amazing thing is, even though these people live fairley primitive life styles,
they all have their mobile phones,
MANILA , the capitol of the Phillipines came to mind, Abject poverty , but
everyone had the mobiles as witnessed by Aileen and Skipper
a
few years ago. when on a visit to " Hector " in his home country.
11.00hrs We raised anchor and set sail for "
Nombre De Dios," A harbour approx 40 miles away.
13.00 Richard
caught a large fish, but alas he managed to escape, to fight another
day.
13.30 Donal did
the lunch , consisting of " KEVINS " delicious home made bread , which he
made on board yesterday,
potatoe
salad, smoked salmon, corgettes, tomatoes & onion, etc,
( this trip is becomming more like " eating our way around the world" )
15.00hrs The day was now very dull and humid,
but then again, Richard caught another fish, but escaped again, this time when
he was close to being
landed
onto the boat.
The Skipper made contact with Cooney Marine who confirmed our thinking regarding
the malfunctioning DAVIT.
they also told us how we could deal with it , so in the morning , hopefully this
will be back in operation again
and we will be able to lift the rib out of the water for the next
trip.
The wind was fairly light, 12 / 14 knots ( we are not used to
this light stuff on the trip)
so we motor / sailed along at 7knots. by the way , the boat is getting a
bit scruffy underneath, she needs a scrub and antifouling..
17.00hrs We arrived in what we would consider
" A pritty remote" harbour, Donal took Aileen, Richard and Grattan ashore
to explore the town,
but! alas they could not land ashore as the sea state was too rough, with big
waves breaking on the beach.
There
were two other boats here also, and like ourselves, were in transit and just
stopped for the night
Later We
had great fun opening the "Coconut."and when finally we had all the white
insides totally extracted. it got gobbled up
by a limited amount of the crew. The youngest model was not impressed (
Richard)
We had a Chicken dinner on board, prepared by "
Donal" who was getting a wee bit touchy by the end of the day. ( nap was
obviously not long enough)
An early bunk
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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