New Port , Rhode Island
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sun 18 Sep 2011 11:56
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SUNDAY 18th SEPTEMBER
2011
Today will be our last day on this boat untill
november , so no more Blogs untill then, The 1st week in November.
Shortly, Rives Potts will come to " A Lady "
and learn how to operate the boat , well, to be shown where everything is
located.
Last Thursday we Took " A lady " 2 miles north
of the bridge again to watch the the Swan 42's racing , The 22 boats
had some real
close races, Its a case of
Blink and go from first to last . The Royal Cork had a
mixed day but after 3 races they slipped to
9th overall,
We had Miles Bidwell and his friend Alex on board
for the day along with Clayton and Skipper, Miles and his wife Lisa live in
N.P.
and we met them on thheir boat " Lady Bug" during
the cruise in Maine with the New York Y.C. last month..
Later , we filled the boat's water tank ( 1040 L )
with fresh water at the Yacht Clubs marina before returning to the
mooring
and battoning down the hatches for the night, The
weather was expected to go into the N.W and get very fresh, and it did
blowing up to 35 knots at times,
A number of boats that were at anchor dragged
across the harbor and banged into others on the way causing great excitment
and panic at times.
Then on Friday, Skipper went to the New Port Boat
Show and met a few interesting people including Rod and Jeff Johnstone
of the J Boat family, Rod designed the J24
which skipper had for a number of years and has fond memories of that boat.
Later, Aileen and skipper called into the local
A.O.H. club who were having an open day BBQ , it was very
interesting
meeting such a large gathering of Irish connected
people in one space thats outside Ireland,
Yesterday, Saturday 17th , We drove 35
minutes in Tom's Jeep to Bristol and paid a visit to the " Herreshoff
Museum" ohhh this
was a great place to visit and well worth the
effort, The two Herreshoff brothers built up a great and infamous boat
building company
from nothing, and one of the brothers " John " was
blind from the age of 15 , John ran the company and Nat designed all the
boats
including designing engines, sails, fittings and
winches, specially for his boats, mostly new inventions at the time,
Later, we returned to the New York Y.C. and met Tom
and Linda Delaney for our goodbye drink and hand back the Jeep.
We had a great time with the Delaneys, but
now its time to go again,
At sundown, we returned to the Y.C. and enjoyed our
last dinner in the club before retiring to " A Lady" and packing the bags..
That all for now,
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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