so yesterday we finally left our perfect island and headed back to jolly harbor as our visas where expiring today and we had paperwork to pick up. we left a bit behind schedule but had an amazing sail over. i wanted to make sure we got in before customs closed so we could leave first thing in the am. alas this was not to be we arrived at 315pm but by the time aimee got over to check out at...
read more
well we where enjoying a “final” “relaxing” day at our favorite island in preparation for the americas cup final, alas this was not exactly what was to be! we did another beach day and relaxed in the foot deep water on perfect sand. i had a few beers while aimee worked on her water yoga routine. we had so much fun we had to send aimee on a supply run to bring back the...
read more
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