" A Lady TRip " Sailing around the World, ( presently in the Galapagos )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sun 7 Mar 2010 21:15
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SATURDAY 6th March 2010
07.00hrs, Again its a cloudy morning and we are all
suffering from migi bites,
Tomorrow we leave the Galapagos Islands, They were
a wonderfull experience, The Islands themselves have nothing much to
offer
but the wild life and sea life are amazing, plus of
course the snortling, or should that be snorkling.
09.30hrs Back on the boat, the skipper gets into
the Lazerette again, to finish off the cleaning and tidying, That real heavy
U.K. macWilliam
sail rolled up and tucked the right into the back
of the lazarette , could in fact be the missing mainsail which we thought was
nicked in the U.K.
We obviously wont find out untill we find a space
big enough to open it up. Up to now, we thought this misterious sail was in
fact a storm sail.
Facinating how , even now after 3
years we still find things on board the
surprise us.
14.00hrs John and Graham (owner/skipper of the S.V.
" Eowyn") came over to " A Lady" to install a small GPS to the boats
computer and the charts
they installed yesterday. Unfortunatly the could
not get it to work , as our computer drive is an " apple" and it seems their
equipment will not work on that.
so we will have to get something sent out from the
U K,
However we may be able to get our e120 series
working again when we get to Tahiti, ( with a bit of luck)
Later Donal and Skipper went ashore and met Aileen
and got our departure papers stamped and cleared for departure,
Kevin is flying out tomorrow , back to join the
family in the B.V.I.s so he did not come with us .
Kevin made a large number of friends on the trip
among the other participating yachts. He will miss them, as they will miss
him.
18.00hrs Donal and skipper went to the Skippers
briefing in the hotel. this took about an hour and was well delivered by
Paul
from the W.C.C, his assistant " Susanne" was
looking radient as usual and really looked after all the little details that
bloody Skippers always
seem to want at the last minute...
Aileen went to 19.30 mass while The Skipper took
Kevin and Donal to the " RED Mangrove Hotel" for dinner in their Japaneese
restaurant,
A farewell dinner for Kevin, We were joined
by Aileen later,
Would you believe we met a guy and his wife from
Dublin, ( ex Anglo Irish Bank) they were staying in the hotel,and we had a
grear laugh,
A great night, and we said our goodbye to Kevin as
he was staying ashore and flying out very early in the morning.
Back to the boat and had a little night cap before
hitting the scratchers.
Bloody midgits again, the feckers are
everywhere.
Signed :- Stephen Hyde, (
Skipper)
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