ARC welcome party
Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Thu 8 Dec 2011 03:59
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Tonight was the official welcome party, for the 83
boats that have arrived so far. Lots of free food and rum, compliments of
the St Lucia tourist board. A chance to swap stories with other crews
about the challenges they faced on the crossing. Either we had it
easy or we have not yet exaggerated our stories enough. The problem is
that however much Bertie's fish grows in our minds, when you look at the photo
of it then it shrinks back to the 2 feet it was. And however much the
asymmetric spinnaker got "trashed" by falling into the water, we didn't have to
"cut it away" and it only took one roll of spinnaker repair tape to mend the
hole.
The annoying thing was that, now we actually see
how much motoring the other boats did to catch us up, we could have been
significantly higher in the rankings had we turned on the engine when
our speed fell below 3 knots. As it is, we lost about 12 hours by waiting
for wind that never came. And noone seems to care about the handicaps or
how much motoring people did, the question is just "what time did you get
in"? Still, we knew the parameters of the race, we just chose to try and
sail all the way to the finish line. We will play it differently for World
ARC.
One highlight of the welcome party was the
three girls in tight black dresses who were really letting themselves go on
the dance floor. One could vibrate her bottom really quickly, which
brought a lot of appreciative cheering from the crowd. In Bertie's opinion
these were clearly spanish prostitutes because they a) spoke spanish and b)
dressed like prostitutes. Andrea couldn't see why spanish prostitutes
would be in St Lucia. Me and Ian, we just appreciated the
dancing. As for "not really a party animal" Denise, she couldn't
resist joining in with the dancing.
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