LOG DAY 26 : Stormey Weather
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Wed 30 May 2012 23:18
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WEDNESDAY 30th May
2012
Ohhhh my gawd, what a wild night last night,
But , BUT ,but, before all that we had dinner on
board last night starting off with a selection of voul-u-vonts
which included prawns, egg ones, and tuna ones, all
yum, yum,
This was all followed by roast belly pork,
crackling, creamed patatoes, roast stuffing with peppers, carrots,
onions, celery & apple sauce, all local
produce,
But , what a night, the wind screemed through the
rigging as all the boats on our raft grinded together for the entire
night,
the flags making a racket as the wind reached 55
knots plus. not to mention the waves lapping against the transome like
someone playing a tune with water.
Morning came and we could hear boats on the VHF who
were just arriving, having spent the night at sea, poor beggers,
then, one yacht got washed up onto the rocks at the
harbour entrance ( not one of ours ) and was rescued by the local tug,
but looking at her later in the travel
hoist, the damage was so bad that its unlikely that she will ever go
to sea again,
The wind & rain during the day was
terrifying, we spent most of the morning on board afraid to venture out,
then it all eased off
and the rush ashore was awesome, everyone going in
different directions , each with their own agenda,
Skipper eventually managed to get to a wifi place
and look over all his ipad messages, still alive , T.G. having
learnt
of some more friends that have gone down the
toilet, ( I mean gone burst ) ohhhh, the whole scene at home is so
sad.....
and things are going to get much worse because no
one is looking at the overall picture, so each institution ( banks )
are
closing down buisness left right & centre
because of the lack of cash flow, and they are the ones that have closed
off that vital
element of cash flow that buisness needs to
survive,
Later as Denis, Vera & Skipper made our
way to to view the stricken yacht , we bumped into Elane Bunting, ....
following
some small chat, we all made our way up to "
Petes Sports cafe" for a few scoops, and of course the place was jointed,
Langers all over the place, some we knew well at
this stage and had a laugh, and more scoops,
Then , skipper who was chatting to " Keith " the
owner and skipper of " Sookie " ( our main compition on the trip to here
)
was none other than the boat we met in Lagos
in 2009 ( 50.000 miles ago ) and was owned at the time by John Mc
Cann
from Strangford in Northern Ireland, gosh, how often do I have to
say , " how small is this world, " Boy oh boy, that boat
gave us the race of our lives, all the way from the BVI,s to the Azores through
Bermuda, absolutly fantastic,
We eventually made our way back to the boat where
skipper cooked " Tuna fish cakes " yeah, these were very interesting,
A couple of glasses of wine later, we were ready
for the scratcher, having had a full and varied day,
Final words, How small is this world,
Thats all for now,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (
skipper )
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