Sailing around the World ( Presently in Mackay, Australia, )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sat 31 Jul 2010 03:39
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FRIDAY 30 JULY
2010 ( Our daughter Sarah flies to the
States to day )
Sarah is flying out the our granchildren in
Newhampshire, USA, They are there with their parents on holidays, Paul and
Christine, and their
granfather from the otherside, ie christine's
father, who travelled over from the Philipppines, His name being Hector, and has
suggested that
he will visit us on the boat when we get to
" Bali.". We think that would be great,,,and look forward to meeting
him again,
Meanwhile , back in Mackay, it is a beautifull
morning for a change, blue skies and light winds,
09.00hrs, Chris arrived and with the rigger, they
replaced the tricolour light and all the lights on the mast with LED
bulbs.
The rigger checked the mast from head to toe again
and replaced the outhaul for the mainsail,
The cost of this was frightning, GOD ! getting
things done here is mighty expensive,
At lunch time, we drove to Caneland shopping
centre, got food for tonight, Aileen doubled up on all the fruit and veg .
and we loaded it all into
the car, and Niall and myself took off to the
airport to return the car,
At the airport , skipper decided to drive into the
taxi rank, park beside a taxi and off load all the goodies into the taxi, before
parking the car in the return car park, as this was a long way from the taxi's
and we did not want to carry all the stuff across the airport.
BUT :-
This feckin traffic bitch had other ideas and came
flying over to the two of us plonkers sitting in the car and just about to
negociate with the
taxi along side, HEY ! Hey
!
Oh shit ! says Niall , I think she has us in her
sights, and sure enough, she had, the bitch ! " HEY
, MOVE OUT of here, you are not allowed to come in here," she
yelled,, Skipper tried explaining that we just wanted to transfer the
goodies......... ahhhh the witch would not even let us finish
what skipper was trying to explain,.............."
Get OUT before I have you arrested, and fined "
Skipper gave her as good as he got, but got no
where,,
She was a big ugly fat cow, but skipper had
to refrain from reminding her about that, so we had to put our tails beteen our
legs and feck off.
Niall got out on the pavement further along and
took all the goodies, while skipper parked the lovely car , returned the keys
and got a taxi.
collected Niall and returned to the marina,
By the time we got to the boat, chris had good news
and bad news, He had replaced the Inverter and it was working well, All skipper
and Niall had to do, was connect it all up and
dismantle the temporary system that skipper had put in place when
the Invertor went belly up a few weeks
ago. All this took an hour or so, and then every thing worked well..
so we gave Chris and his mate a large G & T ,
and of course we had one ourselves,
The Girls returned to the boat later and skipper
put on the dinner around 17.00hrs,, This consisted of a rack of pork ribs,
roast spuds,
Creamed spuds, apple sauce, and carrotts, it
was excellent and we ate dinner in the " Starlight Restaurant " plus the richt
amount of wine,,
which never seems enough at the time, but always
too much the following morning,
Of course, we had lovely music playing all
night, la.la.la.
The new LED lighting is not as good as expected,,
too much like spotlights, and therefore very black and white lighting.
frig...........
We had a lot of chatter to catch up on, so skipper
fellasleep in the blinking cockpit. while the rest kept the talking
going.
Thats all for now,
Signed, :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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