Sailing around the World......and avoiding the hair shirt budgets.
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Wed 23 Jun 2010 06:31
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TUESDAY 22nd June
2010
07.00hrs up early again, did some
early morning cleaning and tidying, as we leave this morning for "
Namena"
Namena is a privatly owned Island, the
manager of the resort there is a cousin of our neighbour upriver in the fishing
launch.( Abbie )
and suggested we pay a visit to the
Island.
Donal went ashore early for breakfast, followed
later by Skipper, Aileen, Margaret & John. We had the full
works,
baked beans and all.
yummy,
10.00hrs, Donal offered to do the clearances,
while skipper got the ship ready to roll. first start the engine and let
it heat up.
11.00hrs We untied from the dock and
slipped out into the estuary, where we took in all the fenders, put away all the
lines,
and hauled the rib up onto the
Derricks
11.30 hrs We left the creek and set
sail south west and out of the Savausavau Bay. altered course slightly and
headed for " Namena "
the distance , just about 25 miles,
Wind 25 / 30 knots on a close fetch, so we took in
two reefs in the main and headsail. and were still sailing along at 9
knots,
Great sailing....... as the OLD
MAN used to say,,,,, " A spanking sail "
14,00hrs We sailed briskly through the
pass into the lagoon where the small Island was located,
We got on the radio to Abbie's cousin, called
Justin.. He very definatly was not going to invite us on the Island,
but did offer us his mooring for the
night..................... thanks a lot !
Abbie, if we had you now, we would string uoy up by
the ba****ls you sold us a pup...... ahhhhh well we cant expect to win
them all.
To make up, Skipper did a lovely Belly pork,
with lots of crispy crackling, roast spuds, carrots, peas and creamed
potatoes,
some wine mixed in , and " the cats me Aunt
"" an old _expression_ of satifaction.
We ate dinner in the " starlight Restaurant " ,
told jokes and finally got into some real destuction and demolition of
some of the mutual boring aquaintentences we
have. ( Usually people who think their piss
is " Port Wine ").
Very much later we hit the scratchers, all feeling
we had an interesting day,
thats it for now,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde
, ( Skipper )
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