Thu
13
Jul '06
The harbour water is said to be dirty. Probably because people like us always end up swimming in it.
We’re messing around on the docks waiting for Atruro to return so the four of us can take the boat out and test it in the waves. The wind is raging. It’s too big to test our sail for the first time, but motoring in the waves should be exciting. If all goes well, we’ll head out tomorrow mornng’s early glassy water, hoist the sail and wait for wind. If all doesn’t go well, we’ll be fabricating the rest of our blogs.
July 13th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Glad to hear the spirits are still up! Beautiful day for a boat ride, unfortunately, Arturo won’t be arriving today - long story. Enjoy the breeze, plan is to set sail first thing manana.
July 13th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
I am impressed, I was expecting the boat to look something out of mutiny on the bounty (not the boat that bligh was on), but the boat the natives used, minus of course the coconuts, singers, and 10 beautiful maidens. Well in reality I thought it would be even worse, ie barely able to float. The boat however looks great, seaworthy, and up for the voyage. The engineering skills are evident. You wouldn’t have taken pictures of another boat, and passed it off as your vessal, in order to calm the worries of family, or would you.
Good luck,