" A Lady Trip " Sailing around the World
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Wed 19 May 2010 18:46
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TUESDAY 18th May
2010 ( presently in Bora Bora )
Gosh, it was interesting here last friday
night, As you will have read, it was a cloudy night and about 22.00hrs,
the whole
sky lit up and remained lit up for a long time in
relative terms, We all thought it was lightning,but there was no thunder and no
more
flashes,, However we were informed later that
it was a huge falling Star, most unusual, and we were witnesses to it all
. Wonderfull stuff..
08.00hrs,, A very sloww rising, even with all the
cocks crowing in the background, The Skipper is still shagged, the sore
throat is still
bothering him and no real improvement,, despite the
antibiotics and spray's.. Its hard to believe that one could get
sick
or ill in a beautifull climate like this.... Its
just not bleedin fair..
We got back all our clearence papers and had our
passports stamped for tomorrows departure.
Laurent arrived with the E120 chart plotter, so we
set about installing the unit back into its housing, and switched it on,
Walla, it working, we have charts and all the
details , and we also have the AIS,, progress, Ohhhhhhh we are so
happy,
Let's look at all the other functions now while we
are still here,
Murphy's Law. We think its just French
Polyneesian law, Fix one thing and screw up something else in the
process,
We had it with the antifouling / annodes, with the
cleaning of the diesel tanks and now the Chart plotter.
The radar does not work, so we took the
unit out and checked all the connections again, but still no Radar... damn
damn.
We cant talk the system through here with the
locals, as they only speak French, and the rest of the world are asleep in
bed.
If we had a Guilloutine, guess who would be the
first sacrifice,,,
Anyway, we wont let it spoil the party,
thats boats......................... the bigger the boats , the bigger the
problems..... Who said that ?
Later , we toured around and sent some more
cards, skipper sent some sexy dolls to his friend Brian A. as he was
whinging
at only reciving cards with blokes and
scenery.... ok , we got the message.
We returned to the boat in time for a swim and
change before the Skippers briefing in advance of tomorrows
departure.
We may well skip Suworrow and go onto Raratonga,
The capitol of the cook Islands.
18.30hrs, 14 of us got an organised bus to
the famous " Bloody Mary's" restaurant, Skipper and Aileen had been
there
13 years ago on their cruise of the
Islands,, It has not changed much, but the Island as a
whole has changed big time,
much more Hotels and much more
commercial.
We had a great night in " Bloody Mary's " and the
cost was reasonable, mind you ! most of the ARC fleet turned up there for
dinner.
During the night, Jan Morton Ruud, offered to look
at our Radar system, which he did later , but with no success.
We will have to leave it for the moment, and at
worst go to sea without radar.. not the best situation, but thats
boats.
An early night, Skipper off the drink, due to his
antibotic tablets. but no one else, However " Fats " made a hot lemon &
honey drink for
the skipper, before having a few night caps
and then the Scratches
zzzzzzzzzzzzz
Thats it for today,
Signed
:- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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