Noon Wednesday 10th 26:44N 51:41W
Bellone
Wed 10 May 2023 16:01
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The mainsail had to come down again at 22.00 hrs
last night. I stirred at 05.30 hrs this morning at saw that the speedo was
showing that we were doing 3k with just the front sail. So back up went the main
and since then we've averaged about 5.5k which is more like it. I normally wake
up when the wind fills the front sail but I managed to sleep through it last
night.
I took a sun sight at noon today, when the sun was
directly above me, but my latitude was at odds with the GPS latitude by twenty
miles. It's about time they tuned-in these satellites!
When I was in Rodney Bay about eight years ago with Ian,
we met a guy called Roy, who was parked about three or four berths away from us.
He had alovely old wooden boat called "Guiding Light".
Originally from the UK, he has settled in St Lucia. We
became quite friendly with him and had him to dinner once, or twice, aboard our
boat and we would socialise with him in the evenings.
One evening during my last visit to Rodney Bay, I asked
the group I was with if they knew this Roy chap. There was a brief awkward
silence.
Apparently, as the storey goes, Roy had come ashore for
his evening drink (his boat by this time was anchored in the bay) and started
chatting to a crew on a yacht from Europe. They plied him with drink, allegedly,
and soon it was time for Roy to return to Guiding Light. He had to be assisted
onto his tender and pointed in the right direction.
That was last anyone ever saw of Roy and his
tender.
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