Saturday 17th December
Nowcrew
Mon 19 Dec 2005 19:25
Family
Arrival Day - English Harbour Antigua
Today was change
over day on Now3. The families of the remaining crew were arriving and we were
saying goodbye to Tom & Maureen.
There were some
final chores to organise in the morning. Tom did some laundry runs and Nico
& Ron set about fixing the main sail batons, a task they wished they had
never started but all was resolved by late morning and we had fully powered main
sail again. Andy and Ian did some shopping in Falmouth Harbour so that we had
enough food for breakfast the next morning. Feeding 12 was going to be tougher
than the 8 crew on the crossing.
Final scrub down of
the boat was completed and we had a last lunch together with Tom and
Maureen before Andy went off to the Airport with them.
Fraser
Here: We were on the plane and ready for a long flight. We took our
seats and began to settle in and almost immediately fell asleep. About two hours
later I woke up and watched a movie. For the other few hours it was back to
sleep.
We soon arrived and
walked into the airport. First we showed our passports and went through
customs.
After that we
grabbed our bags and went outside. We met Andrew (Dad) and piled into the
mini
bus.
After a ten minute
drive we were at the boat. When we arrived granddad showed
us
about the area. We
found out that Nelson had had a room here and even saw his
bed.
The family had arrived and were soon settled in. After
everyone was acclimatized we all went to the Galley bar for drinks and then onto
the HQ restaurant for an early evening meal. This was a special treat as the HQ
is a very up market restaurant in the old officers club in English Harbour. We
had a table for 12 on the balcony over looking the boat. We were certainty
starting in style with girls.
As the tired kids
were heading off to bed around ten we all finished our dinners and soon followed
them with the exception of Nico and Sarah who sat up chatting until 2.00am in
the morning. He must have missed her more than he wanted to let
on!!
Nowcrew
out.