Bora Bora
Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Tue 15 May 2012 02:05
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We arrived in Bora Bora in the afternoon on 10th
May and picked up a mooring buoy reserved for us outside the MaiKai yacht
club. We then had two days for final provisioning before our
departure on 13th. Actually the provisioning just consisted of popping
into the supermarket one morning. Mostly our time was spent eating and
drinking at the yacht club with the other boats.
On Friday evening we went to the famous
restaurant at the southern end of Bora Bora, "Bloody Marys". It was quite
fun, but the food was expensive and the staff positively surly. We had a
table booked for 8pm, which was not available until 8:30 and they started
closing the restaurant at 9:45 which meant we were rushed to finish
dessert.
On Saturday we had the fourth Bora Bora dinghy
race. We entered with our inflatable kyak, stabilized with a fender
outrigger, towing a "thames barrier" with which to obstruct the other
participants and featuring a "pareosailor" to assist with propulsion on the
downwind leg of the course. We also had a bucket containing a bean
flour/water slurry as ammunition. (Bean flour is the stuff you get
when the crew are sent out to a supermarket in Gran Canaria to buy plain
flour.)
Dinghy race photos are courtesy of Gavin from
Sapphire.
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