The crew have gone German
Beoga's Madventure
Henry and Marina Lupton
Sun 22 Nov 2009 09:26
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so a quiet night al round. lots of people
around but all very quiet. a combination of tiredness from previous nights
partying and the realisation that the time was approaching for almost 3 weeks
completely detached from civilisation except of course for the satellite
phone, pcs, ipods, radars, chart plotters, gps, epirbs and all the associated
spare batteries.
God how did christy colubus manage at
all.
Last meal was in a fantastic Italian restaurant on
the marina. Food here has been really good but services varies dramatically. The
itialian had both and food was really tasty.
All the food is on boartd now. (im not going to
correct spelling any more cos its too much hassle and i will have the excuse of
the boat lurching around from today on) fruit and veg hanging from nets and
new basket systems installed by Cormac in the for cabin - sponsored by the vege
shop.
New stereo also installed by Dermot who has just
gone up town to get a way of it connecting to ipods. Commander King never
mentioned any of that in his books.
SInce we didnt get online to download Galway Girl
it look like U2s Beautiful Day will be the song to bring us to the start line in
a couple of hours time.
SHipping has been stopped and the ships that were
anchored off the harbour (lots of them normally, all huge,) are all moved.
Wonder where you put a super tanker when there is no room at the inn. The inn
currently has a big Cruise liner docked in it. Small by comparison to
Independence of the Seas which was in during the week. Google it, its 13 stories
high!!
Anyway, they start us in two groups, we are in a
smaller group cos we have a racing cert but all are agreed that the kettle will
be put on before any manoeuver (spelling errors due to not knowing how to spell
this one) is carried out.
VHF is on beside me for the first time in weeks.
Instructions will come through to us on 77 pre start then we are on our own for
few weeks. Except for all of the stuff described above.
We missed the laying up supper last night and I
think only Fergal was there from Beoga. Trish obviously didnt tell him that we
werent getting any prizes. Cian missing a laying up supper was a shock. Next
years will need to be a biggie. We got instructions from Miriam that we were to
buy a bottle of Pink Cava and open it along with a envelop at 6ish last night
when herself and Pa would be doing the same. There was a flurry of activity
around this time but we finally got ourselves into the cockpit to pop the cork
(of course I thought we had broken something) and opened the letter. I knew the
emotion that would be there and whispered to Cormac 'which one of them will cry
first' - realised after the reading that it was me!
Rang them afterwards to make sure they were downing
the same in Moycullen.
Thanks to everyone for all the good luck wishs over
the past couple of days and for all the help in getting ourselves this far.
Better go help with the washdown and splice that
rope (somethings still work without batteries).
h
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