26th April

Osprey
John Bowering
Sat 26 Apr 2008 23:48

Classic Regatta week ended here and is immediately followed by the Antigua sailing week. One continuous long party with huge numbers of yachts and the associated crews. If that is not enough we have game fishing week to follow though that will, of course be mostly power boats. Many of the larger boats that were here for the classic regatta are starting to head north for Bermuda, as did Lions Whelp yesterday. The weather north of Bermuda is still very much winter north Atlantic and most of the boats will be hanging around in Bermuda for a month to six weeks waiting for the Polar Front to move north and make the passage to either the Mediterranean or New England more acceptable. Herb on Southbound II is starting to get busy again and it is fun to listen to the yachts leaving and logging in with him. Herb is a meteorologist based in Canada who provides an effective weather forecasting service on SSB radio for yachts in the Atlantic – it’s his hobby, free and exceptionally good. Its also keeps all the yachts in contact as they all log in to him on the same frequency at the same time of the day.

 

Osprey is now pretty much together and we have moved onto the list of jobs that were on the wish list. After many frustrating hours today I finally managed to fit effective door catches to the tumble dryer locker – good when it was over and done with; the overhead GALLEY lockers with damaged varnish work have also been attended to. The anchor and cable lockers are next on the list followed by the lazarette. Wild Thing the boat on our Starboard side leaves on Monday which will give me the opportunity to get the dinghy in the water again and off the foredeck.