Partying in Las Palmas(2)
ULA
John & Jackie Richards
Fri 21 Nov 2008 10:15
Our week of preparation in Las Palmas seems to be
flying by. All the crew have been busy most days either organising the
provisioning, radio comms, rigging checks, fishing gear etc in
addition to attending various ARC seminars on weather and routing, first
aid and safety throughout the week.
The Ula 'die hard' running club, namely Andy C,
Howard and yours truly has been in action most mornings with part-time members
John and Andrew being tempted out only once so far. The turn-out seems to be
inversely proportional to the previous evening's alcohol intake! On the subject
of partying- there is a great atmosphere here with crews of all nationalities
joining in the fun. Wednesday night saw the Ula 'pirate crew' attending the ARC
fancy dress 'Tobago Caribbean Carnival' at the Sotavento Club and some serious
partying in to the early hours. Many thanks to Andrew's wife Nicola for
organising our costumes for us (see photo). If only our skipper looked like
Jonny Depp!! The party theme continued last night with a 'Pontoon 16' party
along our pontoon which was good fun.
Andy C has jumped ship to join wife Cazababe
who flew in yesterday. Jenny is arriving back in Las Palmas this evening
after her sailing course in the South of the island. We are all going
out with the crew of Libertad tonight to a restaurant we found while here
in October.
Tomorrow will be for last minute shopping, boat
cleaning and generally getting ready for the off on Sunday. Getting out of the
marina to the start line with 230 boats trying to do the same thing could be
interesting!
Quotes and Awards for this blog:
'Top galley' award for a great pumpkin soup
and fish/salad meal to Howard
'Just put your hand on my
underpants ...Andrew to Andy C re the state of his
laundry........!
'I like your parrot'.... Howard to a girl at the
fancy dress carnival. Howard managed to pull the parrot (now christened Rodney
and on board Ula) but not its previous owner.....(only joking
Helen!)
'I think things have just come back to
life'...Adrian referring to a delicate part of his anatomy some twelve hours
after spending 2 hours in the bosuns chair sorting out the rigging.
Hasta luego! Love to all at home.
Jackie.
Ula pirates at the
carnival
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