Sailing into history around the world and around the race course.
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Tue 19 Apr 2011 13:35
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TUESDAY 19 th APRIL
2011
Today our daughter leah, her husband Johnny and son
Jamie fly of to " Mumbai" in India for 4 or 5 years, Johnny will be working
on the new Airport terminal there. They will be
missed at home by family and friends,
yesterday was our daughter Sarah's birthday,
SATURDAY LAST,
We , thats the First mate and Skipper, got all
dolled up for the prize giving for the " Oyster Regatta"
The reception and prizegiving was held in the
Marina restaurant and was a spectacular evening,
The weather held up, no rain, which always helps,
and especially for the fire works display, magnificant show.
We met Eddie Jordan ( of racing fame
) and his wife Marie, Marie is a first cousin of Colm and Carmel Mc
Carthy, Carmel had " Cork Florest's
in Whintrop Street , Cork . and Colm's son Denis
lives next door to us in Glenbrook, small
world.
We ahd a great chat with them, Eddie being from
Dublin originally. lovely people.
We got 2 prizes on the night, we finished
4th overall in our class, so we were real happy with that.
It seems that " A Lady " has a taller mast than the
other 8 Oyster 56's in the regatta, hence the high handicap we recieved,
There's always something,
It was a long and enjoyable night with loads of
drink . and skipper had to drink Aileens as she does not drink,
soooooooooooo.......
very slow start to Sunday,
SUNDAY, Aileen went to the cathedral
for mass, while skipper got himself together and look intelligent, covering up
the glazed
eyes with big, BIG sunglasses, and avoiding all
commers,
We went to the " Calabash Resort " for long
slow lunch which included a swim in the sea and a nice cool shower,
The bay where the resort is located is facing
South and was full of yachts, sunbathers, and swimmers,
Later, Diana collected us and took us to her
magnificant colonial type house sitting up on the hill overlooking the
harbour
and out to sea. The gardens and flowers
were brilliant, there we had a few glasses of wine before taking off to the
" University Club " for dinner. and of course
reminiscant about good old " Cork "
We had an early night, still whacked out from all
the weeks racing and festivities.
MONDAY , ( Sarah's
Birthday )
We met " Hutch" early on the marina and returned
the Lemon and toinc he gave us on Saturday but never used, Hutch and his
wife were
on their boat right behind us and they are very
good friends of Alan and Penny Spriggs ( their boat is Pennypincher) we
met
them on a joint cruise to the " Azores" with the
ICC and the RCC ( I think ) , June 2009. We met " Hutch" in Las
palmas in
early Nov 2009 at the start of the ARC and it was
great to meet him here again,
We pottered around for a while, then went off to "
Spiceland " to do the provisions for the boat, Later, we went to Diana's house
again for afternoon tea and take pictures of her
house,
meanwhile we managed to get a new bung and fittings
into the rib, Mike did this for us.
we had a relaxing afternoon and evening, with baked
beans , fried eggs and toast for the dinner / tea.
Skipper crashed out early and went to the
scratcher, while Aileen looked after Richard Leonard who called to say hello.
TUESDAY 19th . Today, skipper got
up at 05.30 , had a shower, met some others on the marina, a few chats and back
to the boat
and catch up with the emails and blog, Today we
will leave here for " Carriacou " a distance of approx. 30 miles as the crow
flies.
Thats all for now,
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( skipper )
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