so having gotten back from china, i had a couple days before my next “event” in az so i decided to bop up to Vancouver to see amiee and her parents place. it was a last minute plan so i did not get confirmation back until i was on the plane that aimee and kristie would meet me. i got through customs in record time with no checked bags and beat my welcoming committee to the bar out...
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as you may have read i and the former geotrax team have been working our butts off on a new product for bia-sport.com for almost a year. i had agreed to work even harder and push another china trip in before our lawsuit to keep the bia schedule from slipping. i had been working so hard i had gotten a bit behind on billing and when i got to the states this time a lot of warning bells started going...
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the nice thing about being low on fuel is we “get” to sail more. we had a great sail down to jolly harbor. the cruising guide made it sound like this totally happening place but as we dingied in at sunset we could only see one bar open with a few people at it. we pulled up and discovered it was the place aimee was looking for, of course they had no food but we did get a decent...
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so we finally left north sound with relatively “settled” weather. this meant 15 knots on the nose and waves not usually breaking over the fordeck. i elected to not “top off” with fuel as i was ready to just get under way. this turned out to be a bit suboptimal as after 20 hours of motoring just after passing st barts it became clear we where not going to quite make it...
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aimee made friends with the bar tender at fat virgin so we decided to go in for a lunch with done before leaving. its quite nice and quite here heading into full on off season. stay tuned for antigua. Roger C Hayward +1.562.912.3505 ...
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