Sailing to St lucia
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Mon 25 Apr 2011 13:14
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MONDAY 25th APRIL 20011 (
Easter Monday )
Skipper feels he lost 28lbs yesterday changing the
puncture for the Old American on the hill, All that heat and hard
work,
lifting and hauling the wheels for a 4x4
takes its toll. However, thats the good deed for Easter,
If you asked Aileen, bet she would say that St.
Anthony sent skipper along specially to do that task at that
time.
St . Anthony is wonderfull, He gets credit for
everything skipper finds, even the things he knows where they are,
Last night, We met up with Graham & Chrissie
again and went to Mr. Mac's , a pizzeria, on the water front and it was
great,
It was certainly one of the best pizza's skipper
ever had anywhere, with fresh mushrooms, Crispy bacon, ( fantastic )
and lots of cheese, yum,yum, Graham aand Skipper
shared an 18" between them while Aileen had a chicken curry and
Chrissie had Quische, and the price was great
value.
We returned to " A Lady" and Graham tried in vain
to update the boats Mailasail system, so Skipper has sent an email
to
our whizz kid at home " Arnaud" and hopefully he
will be able to do it from Ireland,
Today, we ( skipper ) got out of the scratcher
around 05.30 and freshened up, went on deck and failed to get the rib up on the
Davitts
because the blinkin batteries in the lazerette are
dead as dodo's , so we will have to tow the rib the 60 odd miles to ST
Lucia,
We have decided to stop over in Marigot Bay tonight
and head up to Rodney Bay early in the morning tomorrow.
There we wilol be joined by our friends from
Belfast, Ian, Joan & Alan Mc Millan,
We slipped our mooring lines, motored over to "
Eowyn and said goodbye to Graham & Chrissie and headed out to sea and
north towards St. Vincent and on up to St. Lucia
from there.
The wind was easterly and blowing 20+ knots, so we
had a fetch , great sailing again scooting along at 8.5 knots.
We passed the P&O cruise ship " Aurora" plus a
myriad of sailing craft heading in all sorts of directions,
So far , so Good, all 2 of us out in our togs, getting the colour up again,
Breckfast was a high and mighty bowl of cornflakes,
plus a modest cup of English breckfast " Tea "
Thats it for now
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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