so this this was an amazing race, almost makes me wish we where back in san fran but then we would not have had the pre race swim to our private beach for a couple beers. will see if the “americans” can pull off another race. it does seem like they are making their boat faster every race! i cant believe they where able to come from behind and pass the kiwi’s. we have another...
read more
so today we rewrote the board (again). had a “team meeting” as aimee likes to do every am and plotted our plan forward. our oct charter got taken off the list so we have until 1 nov to get the boat ready for the two boat shows. the primary goal today was the bottom. we spent about 2.5 hours in the water. me on the hooka and aimee with a snorkel. she got the first 3 feet from the...
read more
this am we definatly had had enough of “civilization” fortunately we had found a local cab to take me pick up the rum so while i filled up our gerry jugs with local rum aimee hit the groceries. we got off the dock before noon with a beutiful (slow) sail around the north side of antigua. antigua is got a lot of reef and so when i cross checked my chart plotter against the cruising...
read more
so alas yesterday we decided we needed to make another trip back to civilization to try to get everything sorted before we where leaving Antigua. aimee had organized to have some one come by and put a new hailing port graphic on the stern. more importantly we wanted to fill up with some local “bushy’s” rum! we also still needed to pick up our stcw certs and sme canvas. bad...
read more
well we finally managed to get out of civilizatoin having given up on getting the stcw cert and hearing back from oliver on the steps and mirrors he did for us. we made a brief stop in jolly harbor to get some more parts at budget and then provisioned at the massive grocerie store and the next day we headed out to green island to complete our charter ‘”refit”. the weather was...
read more