Sailing around the World
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Tue 22 Feb 2011 12:51
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MONDAY 21st FEBRUARY
2001
( Stefan Hyde's birthday )
" Grand Filou " arrived from Rio last night and
pulled into the space beside us where " Kalopie "
had been.
We got up early, and Aileen took off to Mass to
pray for Stefan, ( Our youngest child , big child now ) whose
birthday is today
but he is also having an operation , so fingers
crossed all will be well.
Skipper met this South African young fellow on the
marina, How small is the world ! well it turns out that this guy is
a first
cousin of the " Thesen's " of " Thesen Island
in Knysna, where Sham and Emily live, and his granmother lived in
Tipperary
up untill her death a couple of years ago.
however he did not have an Irish name, it was more like " Chaplin " or something
simular.
He has a Yacht masters
cert and has spent the last year sailing around the world on
different boats, a nice guy.
Shortly after, skipper took down the bunting
forward and prepared the boat to go to sea, we have all the paper work done
and
are begining to get harbour
fever, and have had enough of the broken and
smelly paths with rubbish strewn everywhere,
Still we enjoyed our visit to Salvador, and will
now spend the next 4 or 5 days exploring the Islands and rivers in the
huge Bay here. we have a few sailing guides, but
they are in French, just to make it more interesting.
After a few cornflakes and a cup of tea, ( the
Barrys tea being long gone ) we said good bye to our neighbours and slipped
the lines and headed over to the floating fuel dock for diesel, we topped up with
550L of diesel and also took on boar some
more bottle's of water and coke, but they had run
out of Ice, wahhhhhh we will have to make some of our own, but it is a
pain
in the neck and the ice blocks are small, but still
its ice for the G&T's
The cost of the diesel is roughly the same as
Ireland.
We then put the semiridgit back onto the dericks
and set sail for " Itaparica Island " just about 13 miles west, we sailed
through the huge fleet of moored tankers and other
cargo vessels before reaching the NE side of the Island and all
the beautifull beaches. the golden sands shining
brightly in the sun.
We also passed some traditional sailing skiffs /
fishing boats, with their triangular sail set fore and aft on a small mast,
simular
to what one would expect to find in India or Asia,
we sailed around the corner to find a large
collection of yachts moored in a beautifull bay, we dropped anchor
,
had a light lunch and crashed out for a couple of
hours,
The place had a wonderfull feeling, Its so long
since we were at anchor in flat calm water with a good breeze
blowing
through the boat keeping us cool.
Later, around 5pm we put the dinner cooking and
went ashore for a stroll around, yes this is lovely , a good decision to come
here,
We eventualy made it back to the boat and sat down
to eat skippers dish, the great goulash, but .......... yeach, yeach,
........
cripes, it was overloaded with salt or something,
ohhhh yeach, he definatly got a fail for that, so the whole lot went
over
the side to feed the fish. and we had something
safe like Yougart and pinapple.
" Crazy Horse" also came and dropped anchor later,
but they usually keep to them selves, so thats fine too.
We watched the " Andre Rieu " DVD , our definate
favourate for the moment. and had an early night,
Thats all for today
Signed :_ Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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