Day 19 Antigua
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Position 17:04.00N 61:53.00W We have arrived ! We approached Antigua with full twistle rig flying and had a
great last sail along the coast towards The entrance was a bit tricky as it is shallow and the red
post, that was essential to identify before entering the harbour, had been
changed to a white and red round buoy and completely repositioned. We were first in – we seem to be making a habit of
that ! The customs and immigration lived up to it’s
reputation and Mark went from desk to desk in the little office, speaking to
different officers and filling in exactly the same forms for each one ! Meanwhile the bow thruster was not working and the crew
stayed on board to check out circuit breakers and fuse boxes to try and solve
the problem before we went on round to our marina mooring. Unfortunately we
haven’t yet resolved the problem and the mooring was also a bit tricky ! It was great to be met by Richard & Boot from Rally to
control to show us to our mooring and hand us a A mad scramble followed, taking all the bedding up to the
laundry and sweet talking the Caribbean ‘mamas’ to do some overtime
to have our laundry ready later that day. We then had a cold beer at the
yacht club before greeting Kirsty, Sandie, Amalia and Riley who all arrived 10
minutes later from the airport ! We are now settled onto the boat with the children and
grandchildren and Sandie and Malcolm are settled into a delightful apartment on
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