12.31N 70.02W
JENNY
Alan Franklin/ Lynne Gane
Wed 9 Jan 2008 19:26
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Hi everybody
Alan here on the BLOG in Peter's absence. I'm still
in Aruba enjoying the 5* facilities and socialising with Big Blue,
another BWR Rally boat that's here.
Its a strange quiet boat now that Peter and Jenny
have returned to UK for a while but I thought I'd keep the dialogue going,
especially as P&J might like to know where their boat is in the
world!! We now have the RIB (rigid inflatable boat) that Peter's been
wanting for the Pacific part of our journey, a bargain being disposed of just by
chance!, so now we have two dinghies!, two outboards, etc. in fact it seems we
have two (at least) of most things we expect to go wrong, but not a spare
for what does, but should not!! with spares you have to stop somewhere
either there'll be no room for us or the boat sinks! Hopefully the
generator part being delivered by Bon and John should get the boat back to fully
functioning - but of course there will always be things to fix, and sort, even
now we're still customising the boat.
We expect to leave "towards" St. Blas Islands on
the 11th Jan, intending to get to Shelter Bay in Panama around the
18th, with some time for Bon and Jon to meet with P&J and Ellie,
so we can all be together for a while - its been a very long time since
the last meet up. It seems that
again we don't seem to have a lot of time for the trip, but I guess we have
to consider the BWR almost as a whistle stop tour - finding out the nicest
places we can return to later maybe...... You might think "isn't it funny
that yachties say - towards" - it seems to infer we
don't actually know where we're going!!, but its really that being at the whim
of wind and weather we consider nothings 100% certain so we play it a bit
cagey!! I have to say downwind sailing is a little more
certain!!
Anyway I'll sign off for now and have a beer - it's
the least I can do - lighten the fridge to help our
speed!!
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