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Alan Franklin/ Lynne Gane
Sat 21 Jun 2008 04:32
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Hello All
The wandering gypsy has returned.
To get back to the UK from Bora Bora I had to fly
to Tahiti to Raratonga to Auckland(NZ) to Tonga to LA to Heathrow it was some
journey.I arrived back yesterday afternoon having changed planes
from Tongatapu the main island to Vava'u by a small twin engined plane with
the door open to the cockpit and everything shook and rattled but it got there
just,mind you its the first time that I have been weighed before boarding the
aircraft just because they had a problem with the takeoff and it
showed.
I did manage to see a bit of every place I stopped
at not as much as the boaties but then you can't work and sail and expect to see
it all but I get quite a flavour for the places we visit.As you know Ellie
de-camped to a much faster yacht skippered by a young French man and was amazed
at the speed (the yacht not the man) that the boat went ,so now ours is a slow
old dog.But I think she learnt a lot sailing just two up .
At the same time Jenny sailed two up with Alan and
she is quite remarkable she just gets on with the job and doesn't complain, well
not to much she doesn't realise how competent she is sometimes and Alan is very
good and always keeps the boat safe and sailing well in fact he does extremely
well.
Both boats had some really bad weather with wind
speeds up to 40knts and 5 meter seas with a lot of rain in fact at one time it
was continuous for 36hrs and lashing down.
Well tomorrow we are off to another anchorage in a
little lagoon where there will be some other rally boats to celebrate one of the
other skippers birthday and then it is off to Fiji.
That's all for now
Peter
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