Atlantic Pictures

Moorglade's Voyage
Ted Wilson
Sun 26 Dec 2010 17:55
Admiralty Bay, Bequia.
December 26th 2010
 
 
Sorry there has been a delay in getting these pics on the blog. Our wifi at Carlisle Bay stopped working properly and with the time spent clearing out of Barbados, we went by foot to the offices but all three officials were hard to find and very slow, the passage to Bequia on the night of the 23rd, and then relaxing eating and drinking on Christmas day this is the first opportunity.
 
 
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1 The transatlantic crew ready to leave Tenerife
2 Afternoon tea and ginger cake
3 Glen starts fishing
4 John thinks he can do better
5 Night watch off the African coast. We are the arrow, the little triangles show big ships by AIS, some up to 200miles away which is remarkable as this is a VHF system.
6 The first flying fish to land on board
7 Running in light winds with boomed out cruising chute and genoa
8 Glen guts his first fish which we have as a starter with dinner.
9 A small flying fish lands inside the cabin. So far more fish have landed on board than we have pulled out of the sea.
10 Glen gutting his next two fish.
11 The genoa sheet lead over the end of the main boom after the pole was bent.
12 Loaf of bread cooling in the galley ready for lunch. Fresh bread was a real treat.
13 Glen taking pics of dolphins on the last day.
14 The dolphins. there were lots of them but very hard to photograph
15 Skipper taking pictures of Glen taking pictures
16 Entering Bridgetown harbour.
17 getting ashore to clear in. The swell made this much harder than it looks.
18 First cold beer ashore in Carlisle Bay.
 
My thanks to John, Peter and Glen for helping me to sail Moorglade across the Atlantic Ocean.