Noon Monday 8th 24:22N 53:13W
Bellone
Mon 8 May 2023 15:28
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Just more slow progress. It's stop-start at the moment.
I tried using a sail for something it's not quite meant to do yesterday evening
and ended up with a huge wrap around the forestay, so I won't be trying
that again. I was trying to use a symmetric spinnaker as an asymmetric one. Ian
and I did it a while ago and it work of a fashion.
The wind picked up nicely at about 22.00 hrs last night
so up went the sails again but as we speak the
wind is fading.
Whilst I was in St Lucia I met an American. I met him at
first off the reservation (it's what I called the marina complex) and he seemed
to me to be a typical American. Unconscious bias Columba would say. The meeting
was polite and short, and no more.
A few weeks later when Columba had left St Lucia I met
the American again in the bar on the reservation. I felt obligated to go and
chat with him. We established where each other came from. I explained I was from
a small country in the UK called Wales and he was from a large state called
Texas in the USA. After a few bottles of Piton, he mentioned something about the
welsh fornicating with sheep. I told him I had no idea what he was talking
about! I told him after the Welsh revolution happens, we would come after
people like him to seek redress.
I then asked him if it was true that only two things
came from Texas. Steers and queers.
After that meeting we became inseparable during happy
hour at the bar. Thereafter he was know as the American, and I as
Brit.
I still miss our leg-pulling beer
sessions.
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