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A brief trip to Martha's Vineyard, holiday
playground of the Presidents including Barack Obama who left the island ahead of
our arrival (coincidence?). In fact a very brief trip - just one night, notable
for three things:
- We had to motor all the way from Nantucket (20
miles or so), despite a lovely sailing wind, due to the fact that all the
engine electrics had died just as we started off and I didn't dare stop the
engine until diagnosing the cause. Several hours of panic-stricken reading of
manuals and rooting around looking for fuses ensued, involving taking up
floorboards, emptying cupoards, tracing wiring looms, etc etc. The cause was
eventually tracked down to my having switched the engine electrics off at the
wheel when starting the engine. Putting the switch in the correct position
resolved the problem. Chris had noticed the switch while stering but had been
too polite to point it out, naively assuming that I just couldn't be that
stupid. Wrong, Chris!
- Meeting up with Jenny & Robbie from 'Maymio'
again after several weeks separation. As usual, they were nice and snug,
cheekily moored up to a protected private jetty in the harbour while we were
miles out at anchor.
- Failure to come anywhere near Tom & Hannah's
record for bat & ball - over 200 consequetive hits, achieved on Marie
Galante in the French Caribbean (but without independent veification). Here is
Alison, on her way to exceeding 30. A woeful total, almost embarrassingly bad
- the only saving grace is that Kate & Chris turned out to be far worse,
if that can be believed. Tom, your (alleged) record is clearly safe from
us.
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