day something or other
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Sun 1 Jan 2006 17:28
Happy New Year
Everyone!!!
Sorry about the radio
silence, we've busy doing stuff, instead of being cooped up on the
boat!
We are still anchored in
Elizabeth bay, Bequia, but will probably sail tomorrow, north or south we
haven't decided. That means either St. Vincent and Martinique, or Mustique
and the Tobago quays. Tough choice eh, bet you don't feel sorry for us any
more!
We have survived the
charter boat mayhem here. Charter boat anecdotes abound, about how
they run out of anchors because they cut the rope every morning etc. but
it now seems that no stupidity is too great for them. Last night
they were firing distress flares at each other with great joie de vivre, and one
boat got hit with a huge shower of sparks, but luckily did not catch
fire. Chris fended one yacht off the front of our boat yesterday
morning, out of control, and they created mayhem by serial anchor drags down the
bay in the middle of the night. One yacht apparently got
'T-boned' whatever that means.
Liveaboard boats are easy
to spot as they have jerry cans and bicycles on deck, and loads ofwindvanes and
solar panels.
Mimi has been banned from
swimming for three days to allow her scabby knees to heal. The first time
ashore last week she went charging around and fell over, and with constant salt
water bathing, they are going nastily gummy and not healing.