" A LADY TRIP" Sailing around the world, ( presently in the San Blas Islands )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Tue 19 Jan 2010 15:19
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MONDAY 18th January 2010
09.00hrs A slow morning in Paradise, ( this trip
and the places we visit are just getting better and better all the
time)
The Skipper has run out of words to describe the sheer beauty and isolation of
these Islands.
Anyway, back at the ranch (boat) we tried in vain to fix the starboard davitt,
god! We must not let this thing get the better of us,
but we will have to deal with it some other time, meanwhile we can tow the rib
behind for now..
11.00hrs We raised the anchor and set sail for
" Porvenir ", about 15 miles away to Collect our new passangers, " Grattan
Roberts and
his son Richard (16)
The only airport on the San Blas Islands is " Porvenir " and has the shortest
runway in the world, ( thats Official)
The wind was blowing at 25knots , the sea was flat and we were trucking along at
9knots
Just looking along the deck in these conditions, the boat looks big and stately,
in comparrison to crossing the atlantic
and part of our trip to here , where the boat looked small and miserable as she
( and us ) were being tossed around like a cork
in a biblical tempest. ( quote Paul )
13.00hrs We collected our new arrivals and set off
to the nearby island of " Cayos Chichime "
where
we arrieved about an hour later .
We picked our way through the coral reef's into the inner lagoon ( again , one
big boat lying in grief on the reef )
We dropped anchor in 5m of water, and all went for a swim.
16.00 Aileen ( family and
ship ambassidor ) went ashore and met lots of interesting people, including
great friends of " Louis "
the man who did the job on our watermaker in Curacao, plus many of the native
Indians.
Later We had dinner on
board, This is after all the others had a few drinks ashore with the natives,
and rejoined the ship for
rack of lamb, stuffed porksteaks, and all the other bits, prepared by
skip.
After lots of chat, we all crashed out in the
bunkszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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