Musket Cove Regatta
Lynn & Mike ..around the world
Mike Drinkrow & Lynn v/d Hoven
Sun 15 Sep 2013 03:44
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Musket Cove
Regatta
This week is the 30th annual Musket Cove
Regatta - a week long sailing & social event. More of the social than the
sailing!
The official entry sheet had over 75 boats
registered, from all over the world, and many of them repeat offenders. The
opening night was a sponsored function that started with welcome drinks, a few
quick speeches and then the national anthems. There was one other
couple from South Africa who roped us into singing. Mike and I spent the
afternoon going through the "phonetic" pronunciations and getting the tune in
our head, so we would not make total idiots of ourselves. After about 50
Kiwis, 40 Australians, 35 Americans did their thing, the 4 of us put in
an acceptable performance, even with our "crib notes". I was glad
however, that we went before the 2 Brazilians, who put on a rousing
performance. The evening continued with Fire-dancing, a big BBQ, meeting new
friends and lots of music.
Saturday was the 10nm Pirates race to the
Beachcomber Resort, on another small island. It was a sail; motor; row; get
there anyway you can kind of race. We took along crew from
3 sailboats (Ukulele, Venus & Player), and what a fun we
had. The weather was stunning and people and boats were dressed all
up, with quite a few battles along the way. Water-bombs and hoses were the
main weapons, but one yacht tossed us with bags of flour and rice, which we
are still cleaning up.
When we got to Beachcomber, more Pirates met us - taking us the the beach
in neck chains to walk across hot coals (red stones) and were then force fed
rum. The resort put on a great spread with lots of food, cold
beers and music. There were also some beach games and competitions. An
excellent day all round.
Rumour is, that the serious racing starts on Monday
  A new pirate weapon .. the
Vuvuzela! Time
2 has a bridge full of pirates
  Arriving at Beachcomber
resort Time
2 keeping bad company
  Snow & Greg White from
Melbourne Jerry
finds a parrot
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