Friday, April 17th, 2009
Had a very interesting day today.
I went ashore expecting to spend a quiet day surfing annd chilling while everybody else went racing. The
first half of the day went exactly like that but just about 11:30 John came by. He had rented a car the day
before and driven Spencer to the airport so he could go home. After a bit of Internet surfing we headed
out in his car, with blessed AC, and found a local bar for lunch which was wonderful and CHEAP!
Then we headed down to the shore near Rendezvous Bay and watched the all the boats racing. It was a
fabulous panorama of great sailing vessels like the “J” class sloops, schooners and ketches all the way
down to our brightly coloured brave little dinghy ” Sea Never Dry”.
After the race we went back to the harbour in Falmouth to meet our crewmates who were sailing on some
of these vessels.
I have been shanghaied into sailing on a staysail schooner named “Charmed III” which is an Alden
designed Malibar 5(?) ship. Deb, Bruce and Charlotte sailed on her today and it appears that I will be
sailing on her in the racing tomorrow.
Hmmm…
Should be fun, I’ll let you know how it goes. I’m off to get in on the free food and booze action down on
the docks amongst all these expensive yachts.
Wish me luck for tonight and tomorrow :-)
Thanks for reading.
KJ
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