Boston 42:22.97N 70:57.64W
Lotus
Fri 8 Oct 2010 23:12
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Unfortunately we arrived at Boston just after the
Cirque du Soleil had left town, but never the less Boston kept us entertained
for a few days with it's shops, tourist attractions and the trimaran moored next
door to us in the city marina. Boston is the home of the famous tea
party; seems a crap way to have a party, chucking a load of tea into the sea,
nobody even got pissed, maybe they should have gone to the famous 'Cheers' Bar
instead. We biked around the town, covering most of the historical
landmarks and eventually tracked down the home of Sam, big Norm and all the
other cheers characters that we can't remember the names of. We were
served a pint by the rudest bar man in the world, it was only after Chris had
reminded us of this famous Boston attraction that we decided to track it down,
afterwards we sent Chris a picture of us outside the bar and he replied 'what
were the chance of me running into big Norm'; John says he's a cheeky
git.
As mentioned earlier there was a trimaran moored
next to us, after some sleuth detective work John tacked down the owner, gave
hime a call and bullied him into taking us out. Ben (the owner) a really
nice guy, duly turned up the next night and took us out in his 28ft Corsar
folding wing trimaran. Unfortunately, the conditions were really light but
we got a taste of what was possible as we achieved 5.5knots in 6knots of
wind. Ben's had the speed up to 22 knots. John says he fancies a
trimaran but I'm not sure he can handle the speed, I think he'll cry if we go
much over 11knots.
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