Fw: Sailing around the World
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Thu 10 Mar 2011 15:09
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WEDNESDAY 9th MARCH
2011
09.00hrs We had a skippers briefing
ashore, this outlined the next leg to Granada which starts at 9pm
tomorrow morning, plus who would the radio control
each day and lots more besides.
The " First Mate" did some Skyping, she has really
taken control of this facility,
This was followed by some swimming and relaxing
around the pool. plus lots of chat.
Later, we , S & A got the bus down town
to Recife Shopping Mall to escape the heat and post the bundle of
cards
that have been building up over the last week or
so.
We had a pizza lunch in this posh Italian
Restaurant before returning to the Marina , paying all the charges
collecting the passports and clearance papers
and motoring out to the boat.
We are all excited again about leaving port, and we
are pulling out shortly and will spend the nght down river along with
a few other boats,
5.30pm we untied ourselves from the dock and
backed out, turned the boat around and motered off, we were in very shallow
water
and obviously the river bed was very soft mud as
our dept indicated 00.00 m , Usually when that happens, we are hard
aground,
but in this case, nothing happened, TG............
but we did have 35minutes left in a rising tide.
Down river, we tied alongside " Grand Filou " and
spent the night there, lot of chat etc. Skipper collected Susanna from the
river side docks before lifting the rib up onto the
derricks and strapping it down for going to sea,
We ate some of skippers crispy smoked roast
" belly pork " before turning in for an early night.
Thats all for now,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (
Skipper )
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