Everything gets better
Neroli
Charles Tongue
Fri 21 Nov 2008 19:24
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Everything
gets better......
 Charlie,
Graham, Francoise and Henry - 'in the pink'!
Life on board
Neroli has been difficult since the new standing rigging was condemned by Gerry
the Rigger who did a fantastic job checking the whole boat. Charlie rushed
around with Gerry and arranged for new masthead fittings to be flown over from
Tenerife and for the bow plates for the furler reefing to be shortened.
This morning we prepared Neroli by removing the genoa, slackening off the whole
rig and eventually, just before lunch the Las Palmas' rigger and his
assistant arrived and completed the work which was finally checked and approved
at 1830. Phew! Charlie
has had tooth problems and it has been necessary for him to have root canal work
done by a local dentist - even that is now getting better.
 Charlie and
Lou
On Wednesday
evening the whole crew and Francoise, our social secretary, went to the 'Tobago
Carribbean Carnival' which was a fantastic affair. Lou, her husband Nick and
young son Charlie had just flown in from London - what a shock to the
system. There were some wonderful outfits and although we did not win we were
definately up there with the best! After the presentation of the prizes we were
entertained by some excellent steel band music and a very saucy dancer. All
brilliant fun.
In between all
this excitement we have been packing the boat with fresh food, cleaning decks
and sorting safety equipment with help from 'young Charlie'.
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