Rendez-vous and Price Giving Ceremony for Leg 4 Galapagos - Marquesas

Take Off
Jörgen Wennberg
Thu 28 Apr 2016 09:26
On the 28th of April WARC held the Price Giving Ceremony for Leg 4 from Galapagos - Marquesas in the City Town Hall of Papeete. We first started with the Skipper’s Briefing for the independent sailing in the Society Islands.![]() The Mayor of Papeete welcomed us and gave every crew a memory from Tahiti: a polished oyster shell. This time Alex and Inez got to get the price from the Mayor himself. ![]() ![]() As for the Price Giving: in Class B our Finnish friends on Mearra Nieida won … ![]() … and in Class A Take Off won again!!![]() ![]() ![]() Alex and Inez with their good friends Sheila (from Germany) and Dazs (from South Africa) ![]() After the welcoming and price giving ceremony we were given a speech only to the Skippers by some chief praying for the waters we were to sail on. ![]() ![]() Then the Tahitians gave us a spectacular dancing ceremony! ![]() ![]() The responsible of the Tourist Board welcomed us too and explaining the Tahitian rituals while all the WARC crew enjoyed the entertainment. ![]() ![]() ![]() |