Barrett’s Privateers is one of our favorite sailing songs. A must-have on the CD-player when raising the sails for the first time. It’s our Amazing Grace. You’ve probably heard it blaring across Tampa Bay while you’re out sailing.
Thanks to JackKnife for forwarding this link – I never thought about looking up Stan Rogers. After a little more research, I discovered he died in a horrible plane runway fire at age 33.
Cold weather sucks, but his songs and boomin’ voice kindle thoughts of wool sweaters and crashing waves on rocky shorelines. I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!
Crikey – I almost dropped me Earl Grey Tea! It appears we are heading to ye olde British Virgin Islands for a week-long bareboat charter with two other couples. The boat is Ty Soizic, a 41 Lagoon catamaran. It’s conceived to meet the highest standards – while I, on the other hand was conceived to meet…nevermind. The boat has 5 showers! One of us will have to wait our turn or worse case, double up.
The plane tickets (gulp, see air masks) have been bought, so we are committed. All I know is we fly in, take a ferry somewhere, outfit the boat and head off. A self-admitted bad listener, all I heard was: leave from Tortola, blah, blah, rum, Wiley T’s, blah, blah, rum, Foxy’s, rum, blah, rum. I’m confident we will find a way to have fun in the islands, so no worries on the destinations. Our other shipmates have experience down there – I’ll let them and the wind determine the course. More to come as this exciting adventure unfurls.
The above pic is the cabin of a recently restored sailboat. Wreckless web surfing led me to this beauty – I think somebody on Facebook posted it. My ADD keeps me from creating a lengthy write up – the pictures speak for themselves anyhow. Visit The Spider T website!
Finally, here comes a mile marker – please be 8, please be 8. Jesus – eleven? The miles are going by so slow now. I hope we make it to Key West by 2:00. It’s only 12:30, but Sarah is having trouble keeping up, and I’m pedaling slow, even for me. Amazing what a small [...]
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