Antigua "17:00.2N 61:45.7W"
VulcanSpirit
Richard & Alison Brunstrom
Thu 3 Feb 2011 21:17
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Hi
It was a sad day today as Hannah and Tom have left
us.
Tom has been with us since leaving the Canaries 77
days ago. He has been fun to have on board; no job was ever too much trouble and
he always made things fun.He often slaved away in the galley making something
creative without being asked (unlike his father who has been known to go up the
mast rather than cook).
He must be one of a very few people who has learnt
to navigate using a sextant across the
Atlantic before becoming a qualified Day
Skipper.
He has let it be known though that if we are
looking for crew to bring the boat back he's not interested.
We put him on an early plane this morning bound for
university in Cuba via San Juan, Miami and Cancun. In four weeks time he hopes
to be fluent in Spanish!!!
Hannah flew back to St Lucia and then flies back to
the UK tomorrow.She did extremely well, sailing 225 miles from St Lucia to
Antigua via Dominica and Guadeloupe in sometimes quite rough conditions.She
witnessed one of the worst squalls we have experienced to date on route to Marie
Galante.
At least she will have some fond memories to look
back on when she is working nights next week in the bowel unit in snowy
Edinburgh.
We now have two whole days together on our
own (the first since mid-November). They will be spent cleaning, doing the
laundry and food shopping before our next guests arrive at the
weekend.
Oh the joys of being on the ocean
wave.
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