S/Y Babette Sails to the Caribbean

S/Y Babette sails to the Caribbean, carefully avoiding the Pirates, and then sails back again to Norway.

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Monday, January 30, 2006

Bonanza and an upside-down dinghy



"Bonanza"'s here! While we were at "Sunday School" yesterday the now five 20's-ish crew of "Bonanza' arrived in "Man o' War Bay" (which Pirates Bay is part of). They had sailed from Chaguaramas, Trinidad here, against the wind.
We make a date for dinner at "Sharon and Pheb's" for 7pm.
Great dinner and great to see the Bonanza boys, and now with two girls, again! But towards the end of ice-cream and cake another sailor rushes over to tell us that our dinghy has done a sommersault in the surf and it's been pulled up on the beach. Ow! Oernulf rushes off. I pay first, then follow.

But it's not our's; it's "Bonanza"'s. They get a lend of our dinghy, fetch the tools they need and spend til 1am cleaning up the motor and get it running again.
Back at "Babette" I'd noticed that the powerful football-field lights had been turned on briefly. We found out later that it was to help the Bonanza boys find a screw-driver they'ld lost in the grass!

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