Windjammer Barefoot Cruise
March 30, 1997 - April 12, 1997
First week: S/V Polynesia (mixed Couples/Singles Cruise
By Lee Burke
Friday, March 28, 1997
I arrived on the island of St. Maarten (Dutch side) around 2:30pm. The flight was uneventful, smooth with no problems, breezed through Customs, picked up my luggage and took a taxi to the French side (St. Martin) of the island to Orient Beach. I Stayed at the La'Plantation Resort Hotel in Orient Bay for the first time. Check-in was a breeze, the hotel people were nice. They even drove me up to my room. The room was really nice with a really good view or Orient Beach and Bay. I was very impressed with the place during my two day stay and will stay there again in the future. The price was very good.
That evening I ate at the Kon Tiki Restaurant/Bar which is on Orient Beach. The food was good and the drinks were great.
It was great listening to the waves break on the shoreline. I had that Caribbean feeling again.
Saturday:
I woke up fairly early and had breakfast at the hotel (it was free) than went to spend the day on the beach getting some sun and enjoying the great views you get on a French Beach. Orient Beach is a well known beach in the Caribbean and there are some pretty ladies walking around French Style. I spent the whole day on the beach laying out in the sun, eating lunch and having some drinks.
Great way to spend your first day in the Caribbean.
That night I had dinner again at Kon Tiki, plus stayed out late drinking at the bar.
Sunday: Day Time.
Again spent the day on Orient Beach doing about the same thing as I did the day before. Which means I was enjoying myself immensely.
Around 3:00 I went back to the hotel and got ready for Windjamming. Took at taxi to Philipsburg.
Sunday: 5:00PM.
Got on the launch to the ship.
Like always the Captain (Neil) was there to welcome us aboard. The stewards handed out free Rum Punch while me and the other passengers went into the dinning room to check in. I saw Annie the Purser and the First Mate Chris sitting at a table. I said hi to Annie who I have sailed with before. I than saw Christeen the Activities Director who I also said hi too. Ingrid the Acting Chief Steward said hi. She is a nice lady who has been on the ship as long as I can remember. The regular Chief Steward Popeye was on vacation for a few weeks so Ingrid was taking his place while he was gone. I checked in with the other passengers and sat next to Christeen while she was setting up the ships charge with the other passengers. She had mentioned that a couple of people had printed out and brought a copy of my last trip report. She also pointed out that I never mentioned her on my report! I promised that I would this time, so you will see her name a lot <smirk> in the trip report. After chatting with her I went toward the bar and grabbed another free rum punch, than went up on the top deck to check out the other passengers. First thing I noticed was kids!! For the first time I saw some kids on a windjammer ship. There were about four of them ranging from around the age of eight to ten years old. Three girls and a boy. That took me by surprise. I never thought kids and a windjammer barefoot cruise went together. I was to learn during the week that in fact they do go together. As the week went on I noticed that the kids actually enjoyed themselves. As an added bonus they were nice kids that did not bug anyone. But that first night I thought of it as a bad sign. There were also a few teen boys. I checked everyone out and only found a couple of singles on the ship. No one that I connected with. So I waited and hunted around to no avail. A couple hours later a buffet dinner was set up in the dining room. The food was good. Same stuff as always, meat, chicken, shrimp, salads, bread and desert. After dinner I dropped by the bar a few times for refreshments. Well, maybe more than a few times <grin>. The ship had a good band playing on the top deck that night, they started playing about 8:30pm. I danced a few times. Not all that many people were dancing, but enough. The band took a break about 9:40. When they came back to play again at ten, there was no one there! Just me and a girl called JJ. So me and JJ danced, we were the only ones on the top deck which surprised me, normally there were a bunch of folks around. After one dance I explored the ship, both the top deck and the bar area, there were about eight people still up and this was around 10:30pm. Not a great beginning. I hit the sack early that night. I wrote in my journal
"Looks like I finally will read that book I have been carrying around while windjamming the past three years".
Monday:
Woke up to a nice sunny day and had breakfast. The normal stuff, eggs, sausage, coffee, juice, hash (spicy), cereal. After breakfast I walked around and said hello to other passengers. I was still on my search for some folks to hang out with for the week. Not much luck. There was a group that had twenty cabins, they were from the Midwest. That was forty people right there that were pretty much out. Strike one. Add the kids with their moms/dads/aunts that took over the two bachelorette cabins. Strike two. I was thinking about reading that book more and more.
Most of the people went ashore to do a tour of the island or some shopping in town. Quite a few people did the "America's Cup Regatta" sailing activity which is one of the best activities that windjammer arranges. I stayed on board and did pretty much nothing. Near noon I noticed that two ladies came aboard that I have not seen before, they were very attractive. I was leaning over the side looking down at them as they got off the launch. Hmmm, maybe things were looking up.
Around 1:00pm everyone was back aboard. The ship raised the sails to the song "Amazing Grace". It was nice to hear that song on a windjammer ship again. Off we sailed toward Anguilla. I laid on deck getting some sun as we sailed. On my way to the bar I would talk to a few people. I met the two ladies that I saw come aboard on the launch. One was named Lora and the other Amy. Lora instantly reminded me of Meg Ryan!! All I can say is "Wow". She was something. Amy was not bad herself. They were nice. I talked to them for awhile, then went back to getting some sun. I forgot how many folks I talked to that afternoon but in the end it felt like half the ship.
We had an activity called the "Boat Races" which consisted of three rows (ten in a row) of people. One row was females, the other ships company and the last was males. It is basically a light drinking contest which in the end everyone get beer and champagne dumped on their heads and bodies. It is fun. I am not going into more detail about it but trust me you will enjoy it. Around 6:00pm we anchored off Anguilla. The captain had the diving board out and a bunch of us dove off of it. It seems that all the passengers were watching us dive. The fact that the passengers were all on one side of the ship made the board tilt which made for some interesting dives. Right off on my first dive when I hit the water my bathing suit almost but I was able to catch it and bring it back up to where it belongs!
The diving was fun, it woke me up from a lazy sun filled day. After about a dozen dives I wrapped a towel around me (My towel looked like a cape, but I did not look like superman) and walked up to the top deck. I hung out with Lora and Amy for awhile than went a took a shower to get ready for dinner. I went to the second sitting with Lora and Amy.
Normal meal, meat, fish, soup, salad, red/white wine and stuff. I noticed that the food was really good during the whole week. After dinner the crab races began. The crab races consist of about a dozen little crabs that the ships crew hunted down and kept as "Slave Crabs" so they could race while we bet money on them. <Smirk> There were four heats to pick the final racers. Just before each heat Christeen the activities director would tell a joke or have a passenger tell one. Some of the jokes were pretty funny, the dirty jokes were mild this time because of the little kids on the ship. The betting went from one dollar to one million dollars. Of course no one bet a million dollars. The highest bet was around twenty dollars with most folks betting one to five dollars. Once again for my ninth windjammer cruise I bet on the loser. Never have won and most likely never will. I forgot which little slave crab one, but he/she did not win his/her freedom that is for sure! After we were done with the Slave Crab Races everyone hung out on the deck or at the bar, or people like me bought stuff at the bar and hung around the deck. I ended up talking to Lora and Amy, plus a guy called Rick who ended up part of our gang for the week. There was a guy from Canada who I did not trust one bit, his name was Alan. We let him join us too. <grin> So we had a group of four. It ended up a pretty good night, I got to meet folks I connected with and had a gang now that I could hang with. Thing were looking up.
Tuesday:
Woke up early to another sunny day. We were to stay in Anguilla the whole day and into the night. The day was for the beach with a beach barbecue party and a live band playing for us that night. Not bad. We took a launch to the island and took this big open air taxi thing that held about 25 people to Shoals beach. The trip was $5.00 roundtrip. Shoals is a really beautiful beach that is rated as one of the best in the Caribbean. I have been there many times before and have always enjoyed it. Lora, Amy and Rick were impressed. The sand is the white powder type with the water being crystal clear. The beach had a long reef offshore that broke the waves, by the time the water came on the beach is was super clear and super calm. Great for snorkeling and flat out wonderful for swimming or just hanging in the water.
We got four beach chairs and started sunning ourselves. This was around 10:30am. The rest of the day was swimming, drinking, getting sun rays, swimming, drinking, eating at a place called Ernie's where I had a good cheeseburger and some great greasy french fries. We were now joined by a guy named Billy and his dad. Billy was a Marine reservist with tattoos, a shaved head and muscles, other than that he was a great guy!! He ended up hanging our with us a lot that week too. Another member of the gang. His dad was around seventy. It was great to see how both him and his dad enjoyed the cruise and each other's company that week. Lora and Amy treated his dad like a king. Actually we all liked Billy's dad, he was a great guy. Anyway back to eating. Some of the folks had this fish thing which was great. I forget the name of it but it sure was good. I sampled some of it. Again we were drinking beers.
After lunch we went back to the beach chairs and laid out under the sun again, this time joined by Billy, his dad and now Alan the guy from Canada. Now we had two new visitors. One named Janet and the other named Bob. Like Alan they were from Canada, but we still let them hang will us. So now our group was nine on and off all week. The rest of the afternoon we swam, got sun, drank, swam again, drank again and got more sun. Finally around 4:00pm we headed back to the ship. Some of us were feeling no pain from the sun and drink but we were a happy gang!!
Once on the ship they had the daily 5:00pm Swizzle break which consisted of snacks and free rum swizzles. More drinking. Jeez.. Finally after a few swizzles we all went to clean up for the beach party.
And a great beach party it was!! The beach party was in front of this fairly big beach restaurant/bar. Sorry I forgot the name of the place. The Polynesia passengers pretty much took over most of the restaurant/bar with a little area reserved for non-windjammers having dinner. The ship brought over chicken, ribs, corn, potatoes, veggies and desert. They cooked the chicken and ribs barbecue style right on the beach. The food was great. After we ate we went to the bar (of course) ordered a few drinks and took over a table to watch the band. The band was playing on the beach and no one was dancing so Christeen the activities director decided that I should help her out by dancing with her. Well, I danced and let me tell you dancing in sand is work, just plain work. Being the macho guy I am I never let on that my legs were killing me after about twenty minutes into the music. Christeen on the other hand was full of energy! Finally the music ended and I quickly slipped away back to the table and (you guessed it) had some more drinks. Lora, Rick, Alan, Billy, his dad, Janet, Bob and me were having a pretty good time. Matter fact I would say a great time. There was a lot of laughing, drinking and just plain fun. Christeen had succeeded in her goal to have a lot of people dance in the sand while we had fun watching. Okay so maybe we did dance a little more too. All in all it was a very good night. We went back to the ship around 10:30pm. Lora and Amy crashed. Lora had to Scuba dive the next day. Me and the others drank some more while we waited for the ship to raise the sails.
It was great to set sail under the stars again! Raising them in the daytime is good but at night it is flat out great!
The sails were raised around midnight. As we set sail under the millions of stars with the song Amazing Grace playing over the speaker system I felt like I was back home on my favorite ship in the Caribbean. Having a few drinks under your belt even makes it more fun. A bunch of us stayed up late that night, feeling the soft Caribbean breeze and looking up at the stars.
Wednesday:
Once again I woke up early to sunny skies. I had breakfast which consisted of pancakes, juice, hash (spicy again), coffee,
Bread etc. etc.
Went on deck to see the island of Saba coming closer and closer.
Saba is a green, round and tiny (only 5.1 square miles) island poking out of the Caribbean. It looks like a mountain up to its shoulders into the sea, which is what it is. Eons ago its highest peak (2,855 foot Mt. Scenery) was an active volcano. Now its crater is dead and a rain forest grows on its side. There are no beaches on the island, just a mountain that goes into the sea.
I on the other hand call it one great big rock in the ocean!
It's history goes back to the Dutch. If you like flowers and everything green, friendly people, beautiful little houses, super clean streets, no crime and I mean ZERO crime with next to no nightlife than you will love Saba. It is a book reading type of an island, which you will either just flat out love or get bored with after a day or two. It has been rare for the Polynesia to stop at Saba since Captain Neil took over the ship. I myself after three past visits to the island had become rather bored with it. But Lora was looking forward to it since she was to spend the day Scuba Diving. The group pretty much broke up for the day with each going our own way. When we set anchor, had story time with the captain telling us the day's history lesson of the island, plus a few jokes which were pretty good. When he was done he turned it over to Christeen who told us about the activities and tours for the day. This was something that windjammer does everyday on their ships. Story Time is when the captain tells you where we are, what are some of the highlights on the island, the history of the island, what we will do later that night and always tells some jokes. The activity director than tells you the tours and activities on the island.
On Saba one of the main activities was the walk up to Mt Scenery which is a heavy duty climb up a rain type forest that is located on top of the island.
We took the launch to the dock and grabbed a taxi. The price was $10 roundtrip. Amy, Bob, Janet and me were in one taxi. I remember telling everyone about how the island folks asked help from some Dutch engineers to make a road that goes up the island. The Dutch engineers came over, looked at the island than promptly told them there was not way they could build a road. The island was just too steep. One Saba resident decided to take a correspondence course about road building and the island folks promptly built (took three years) their own road. Typical Saba, they do not know that the silly Europeans are smarter than them!! <smirk> We Spent about an hour touring the island which made for great photo shots. An hour is about as long as you need unless you want to go right back down the island and then back up again!! It is a small island. Just before we anchored at Saba I kept telling everyone that the road went straight up in the air and you felt that your taxi would tilt over. Everyone ended up agreeing with me as we rode up the road, the problem I had was that it did not seem as steep as the first three times I went up it. To me it now seemed like a normal hilly road. Guess I have been traveling in the Caribbean for too long since other islands also have steep roads.
Here is more information on the hike up Mt. Scenery.
Mt. Scenery has 1,064 concert stairway Steps (not as even or simple as it sounds) that leads to the top, this takes about two to three hours to climb up and walk down. It is a heavy hike that I passed up on this trip. The ship's purser Annie and Christeen the activities director climbed up the trail and ran all the ways down, it took them only an hour and a half. When I saw them they were hardly even sweating!! It does help to be in great shape when you do that climb and they had great shapes <smirk>.
Most of us hung out at the Captains Quarters in the town of Bottom. It is a small hotel with a bar and swimming pool. The ship brought lunch up to us. Sub sandwiches which were pretty good. After (you guessed it) a few drinks at the bar and some lunch me and Janet walked around town stopping in the local stores which seemed more like stepping into someone's polar than browsing through any boutique you've ever seen. I am not a shopper but it was fun browsing around to the different little shops. I ended up buying three tee shirts which I had stopped doing awhile back since I now have something like seventy tee shirts now!! The prices were very good and the tee shirts were not the cheap tourists junk that shrinks after one wash that you find on other islands. What impressed me was that no one pressed me to buy something, which meant I of course bought something! The little shops had the Famous "Saba Spice" which is about 150 proof. It is home made and each place makes it different than the other place. It is well worth buying a bottle. They also sold Saba Lace which is really pretty. The shops had art, crafts and other interesting items at good prices. Well worth a look.
After our walk me and Janet went back to the Captains Quarters and had a few more drinks. In the shops the residents were not too pleased with our captain. They felt that he should stop there more often. With the old captain (Marcel) the Polynesia visited the island almost every week but since Captain Neil took over the Polynesia they hardly ever stop on the island, they questioned his seamanship. I mentioned this to the First Mate Chris who defended the Captain saying that the currents around the island made it very difficult and at times dangerous for the ship to anchor off the island. He said they had problems with the launches and did not want any of the passengers getting hurt. I make no judgements on since Captain Neil is a very professional and capable captain who's seamanship is beyond question. One thing I do know is that Saba was Captain Marcel's favorite island so he made sure that he found a way there. On the other hand Captain Neil favors Nevis. If you visit Saba you can not visit Nevis because the Polynesia has to get water on St. Kitts and it is a must that she visit St. Barts and Anguilla if possible. She can only visit four islands during the week. As much fun as I had in Saba I still favor Nevis which we did not visit that week. But I have to say that I was surprised how I had forgotten how beautiful and friendly the island of Saba and its people are.
Back to my Saba visit. Amy flat out fell in love with the island. She took a tour of the hotel rooms at the Captains Quarters and promptly decided she was going to visit the island again for at least a week. From what I found out about Amy and Lora that week I knew that she was serious and will be paying that island a visit soon. Late in the afternoon we went back down the road with Janet freaking that the taxi might tip over till we hit the bottom. Actually we did not "Hit" the bottom of the island!
We took the launch back to the ship. That night we were to have a scavenger hunt, buffet dinner and costume night which is called PPP night. PPP stands for Pimps, Pirates and Prostitutes, plus anything that starts with the letter "P".
The scavenger hunt is normally four rows of passengers (8 to 10 people in each row) who have to get something. What they are asked to get is things like Condoms, Panties, a dime, Doubloom,
A Bra, A Passport etc. etc. The final is always the females picking one of the males in the group that they dress up as a female. Actually it is pretty funny to watch or participate in. This time I watched. The guys who were dressed up to look like females were pretty ugly if I do say so myself! This scavenger hunt was funny and all had a good time. The guys who were now almost females did not have to change to participate in the PPP costume night since they were already in costume!
Right after the scavenger hunt we were asked to get into costume.
I got into my pirate outfit which really takes about five minutes and joined the crowd upstairs. About half the passengers participated. I actually forgot what most of the folks came dressed as except I noticed a lot of other Pirates. The next weeks cruise on the Flying Cloud was a whole different story, that was one wild PPP night. But that is another story to come later in Part Two of my trip report on the singles cruise on the S/V Flying Cloud which sails in the British Virgin Islands.
After we were all in our costumes the Buffet Dinner was served on the top deck. The food was excellent. Mashed Potatoes (the real kind), Gravy, Roast Beef, Turkey, Fish, Veggies, Salad, Desert and Wine or soft drink. We sat on the deck and had our dinner. A lot of us went back for seconds.
After dinner we judged the costume's to pick the winners.
Before the folks in costume paraded around Christeen started out telling some spicy jokes. Since there were kids on the ship she made them wait down below by the standard cabins. She told a couple of jokes which were very good, than had some of the passengers tell some. Some of the jokes the passengers told were "duds" and some were pretty good. Annie the Purser did her imitation of Meg Ryan's Orgasm that was seen in the movie "Harry and Sally". She did four different versions and they were hilarious. Had all of us in stitches! The kids were allowed back up on deck as the contestants paraded around while they were being judged.
The first runners up were two guys dressed as gals. They each got bottles of Champagne with the second and third runner ups getting some stuff from the ships store. Tee shirts and stuff like that. The winners this week were two of the little kids. Frankly I forgot what they were dressed up as. They got special presents from the ships store.
The whole event seemed to be enjoyed by everybody.
That was it for the events that night. Now the gang did some serious drinking, that is all except for Lora and Amy, they hit the sack. The main reason they were going to bed early was because they were taking "seasick Pills" which made them drowsy.
As I said the rest of us drank and watched the sails raise again.
Once more under the millions and millions of stars. Another great raising of the sails.
Thursday:
Still another morning waking up to a sunny day. We spent the whole day in St. Kitts. Went to town with Rick, Janet and Bob for an hour and a half. We met up with Lora and Amy who had planned to do a rain forest hike but changed their minds. We saw them in town just before we were to leave for Turtle Beach. The three of us went to Turtle Beach for the day with Lora and Amy joining us. We had food, sun, saw a monkey drink out of a cup, got cool pictures out of it. I had warned everyone that it was not one of the best beaches in the world. The water was crystal clear but you had to walk through an underground jungle in places. I thought that maybe they would not like the place but they all immediately loved it. I guess my taste is pretty good. The restaurant serves good food at decent prices. They do take a long time to bring you the food but that was no problem since we were in no rush, we just laid out on one of the beach chairs and did a little swimming till lunch was ready. The drinks were good and it was a sunny day. After lunch we continued the afternoon laying in the sun and taking a swim now and then.
Before I forget there is a really special place you might want to visit called Brimstone Fort. Its vantage point 750 feet above the Caribbean allows you a spectacular six-island (Nevis, Montserrat, Saba, Statia, St. Maartin/St. Martin and St. Barts) view. The fort took 100 years to build. Its massive gray walls, 7 to 12 feet thick link a number of bastions and enclose the remnants of extensive life-sustaining installations (hospital, storerooms, cookhouses, asylum and cemetery) as well as the predictable parade, barracks, officer's quarters, and mess. An excellent place for pictures. Bring a Panorama disposable camera with you.
Also the road from Frigates Bay to Turtle Beach goes up and winds around huge hills that offer you some great views. There is nothing on the road, no hotels, houses or anything else except cow, monkeys and great panoramic views. This is a must see ride with great pictures taking type views.
Back to Turtle Beach.
Around 4:00pm we went to Frigate bay where the ship had anchored We had drinks at the bar there. Had fun with Lora, Amy, Bob, Rick, Janet and me hanging out there. It was a blast, the bar was excellent, just a plain old Caribbean style beach bar. After a couple of hours there we went back to the ship, but I ended up going back ashore and had a few more drinks. Seems I left my Sunglasses there and they were not cheap so I had to come back and get them. Later that night we had everything set for a on deck "Sleeping Under The Stars Party" after the band was done playing BUT the band came aboard a little late. Captain Neil did not feel that they should be paid the full amount. The band on the other hand felt they should be paid the full price. In the end they called each others bluff and the band left the ship. No band that night. Now that was a bummer that messed up our well laid plans. I ended up getting involved in a game that Christeen set up quickly. Never did know the name of the game but is was decent for a last minute setup. By the time I was done everything had broken down for the big sleep out on the deck that night so it was a rather blah ending to a great day. Lora had gone to bed before we raised the sails but Amy stayed up and was really impressed when the sails were raised with the Amazing Grace playing while we sailed under the stars. She crashed after she saw the "Southern Cross". The next day she told Lora how great it was to hear the music and sail under the stars, she was really impressed with being able to see the Southern Cross. Lora swore she was going to stay up late Friday night to see for herself but she had too good a time on St. Barts. Strange, the first week (this cruise) I hung out with females who went to bed early and woke up early while the next week I hung out with females who went to bed super late and slept till noon. Crazy world.
Friday:
Arrived in St. Barts late at around 1:30pm due to the ocean current acting strange per the captain. He apologized for the band situation at story time saying that there has to be a line drawn at times and this was one of those. Than he said it would be a long time before that band played on his ship again. I on the other hand was irked because I felt that he should have paid them what they wanted, let them play and than never invite them back again. But Captain Neil is a Scot and you know how hard headed the Scots can be. Anyway back to St. Barts. Lora and Amy had friends on the island who they visited for the day. Seems that Lora was on the island for two weeks two months prior and knew a lot of people. Matter fact later on that night her and Amy were seen drinking Champagne with the Governor of the island! Since the island is known for the rich and famous it proved some thoughts I had about Lora during that week, but that is another story.
It was a cloudy day and we arrived late so I went around town for awhile. Roamed around with Bob and Janet who were doing some shopping. I also spent some time at Le'Select and had a few beers. than I walked to Shell Beach which was packed with cruisers from the two big cruise ships that were in port. Shell Beach is right in town. After Shell Beach I went back to Le'Select and met Rick. We went to a little restaurant next to where the launch dropped the passengers off. Janet and Bob joined us. We had French Fries and drinks. Around 5:00 we went back to the ship. That night there would be no captains dinner, instead we had Wine and Cheese get together along with a buffet style meal. Kind of strange but it was okay. One line was for the wine and cheese while another was for the meal. Everyone got mixed up and some ended up eating when they meant to have some wine and cheese first while others ended up having wine while they meant to have dinner <grin>
After we cleaned up we went ashore to LeSelect where they had a band playing. It was a good band. There was a whole bunch of Young (teens)French guys hanging outside of the bar, something like twenty of them. The Le'Select was the place for the teens to hangout that night it seems. Later a few of us walked along the dock checking out the million dollar Plus "Yacht's". There were a lot of them there. We ended up at the restaurant that we were in earlier in the day and had some more french fries and drinks, than we went back to the ship at 10:30pm. The last launch was 11:00pm. We raised the sails for the last time under the stars.
Saturday:
Goodbye day. Said goodbye to the ships company and the friends I made during the week. Sad but after nine windjammer cruises I am use to it now.
Around 10:30 I left the ship for the airport. Took a flight to Beef Island, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.
That part of the story is to be continued shortly.
I leave you now with a summary for the first week.
It started out a bit scary for me since there were not many singles but once again I ended up having a great cruise where I met a lot of terrific people and some good new friends. The ships crew has really improved. Captain Neil deserves a lot of credit for that. Annie the Purser was great as always as well as
Christeen the Activities Director who worked very hard at ensuring that everyone had fun. She accomplished her mission!
My favorite steward called "Country" was always smiling and joking the whole week. Great guy. Ingrid who filled in as Chief Steward for Popeye did an excellent job. The First Mate Chris was a great guy who was very loyal to windjammer and mostly Captain Neil. The passengers were great and my first week
Ended up as one with a lot of great memories. As I said before I made some very good friends and feeling lucky about that.
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here: to read part two which my trip report on the S/V Flying Cloud that I took the second week orgo to http://www.glider.simplenet.com/leecloud.htm
Lee Burke