Month: April 2014

A successful export from Bognor Regis?

Fast food?

We believe the mothership attacked the tender as a split pin on the back stay had rotated and pierced the skin on reversing to check the anchor was dug in. Eventually the tube part filled with water and collapsed at a faster and faster rate so we had to go for a field repair. And a quick word on tenders; we made the mistake of listening to a professional and did not fit davits. This has restricted our mobility as it’s a big effort and very time consuming to keep stripping the tender down every time you want to move.

There is a strain of cruiser that seems to suffer from an onslaught of stress of mammoth proportions at the the sight of another boat in an anchorage. We witnessed this when an old British pilot cutter started checking out a bit of water in Prickly Bay. Frankly if you can sail an old gaff cutter with a monster 10m bowsprit around UK waters then you are going to know what you are doing. But we watched the owner of American yacht Mr Curly rush to the bows of his ship and start yelling at the skipper that he couldn’t

Commercial traffic is dotted all over the reefs in the Caribbean as it’s too heavy to haul off. The ship below turned up in January and is still stuck on the rocks.                                       Not in any way connected with this is the very interesting sailing vessel from Denmark that we have been alongside for the last couple of days.

                    Fishing 200 yards from the fish market – now that’s fresh.               The airport terminal         Panorama from ‘The View’ restaurant

The small supermarket is extraordinarily well stocked with all kinds of goodies including French cheeses

Our new neighbour Salute arrived and the question on everyones mind was ‘how big is that?’     We are alongside Silent Wings (54ft) and next door’s mast is twice our height. Actual mast height is 237ft.                   The furling gear is about the size of a crew member if you look closely.             It is 184ft long and gross tonnage is 543 tonnes. Like all superyachts it’s for sale. Asking $35m USD.        

Back home it’s a can of pop, packet of crisps and five hours TV…..