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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Thursday, April 13, 2006

Three Norwegian boats, and a cat on the reefs


The wind is blowing 20kn, but the surrounding reefs quiet the seas in Nonesuch Bay. At 7am "Full Circle" (Annapolis, USA) and our fellow Norwegian boat-neighbor, "Canica", a rather large sloop, five spreaders in the mast, apparently with Stein Erik Hagen and family/friends on board, leave the bay. We're waving goodbye. To John and Karen on "Full Circle".
A calm and lovely day. Warm sun, cool breeze and waters. We chat with the Norwegian "Caro", snorkel a bit. And then do some Polynesian dreaming of Fatuhiva, deep into Ragnar Kvam's Thor Heyerdahl biography. Which we're borrowing from s/y"Fatuhiva". Surrounded by reefs and small green islands in a bluegreen sea it's not hard to be swallowed up by Kvam's page-turner.

Just as the magic hour before sunset arrives, giving some relief from the sun, we suddenly hear some shouting and whistling. A catamaran is stuck on "Middle Reef". Everyone else is glad it's not them. With a long rope another (rental-) cat manages to pull them off. And they're still afloat as the sky darkens. And a big orange moon rises.

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