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| Oh what to do in Antigua! |
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| Written by Lin & Rachel at sea | |
| Tuesday, 12 February 2008 | |
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Since we’ve been out here on our epic adventure, we have acquired a number of supporters and it seems quite a few will be in Antigua when we get there.
We will have to clean the boat down, unpack everything and repack her ready for shipping back to the UK. This will entail getting rid of all the ballast water, cleaning the cabins, disposing of our rubbish, washing and repacking our clothes (some will just be ditched as they really aren’t that nice any more!), taking out the flares and remaining gas as these are shipped separately and basic clearing up. We will also need a few days to recover, get our land legs back again and get over land sickness, which we have both suffered before (not looking forward to that bit) but this shouldn’t take more than 2-3 days. We may even go and get our hair done, a massage and facial too – bliss! We’ve had the nod to go to Antigua Yacht Club for drinks one evening – we think it would be a great idea to perhaps hold a questions and answer session for members of the yacht club and members of Yachtpals.com maybe on our first Friday evening there. We’ve also heard that there is a local school where the pupils have been following the race and we’d be happy to pop along one day to answer any questions the pupils may have. We’d love to take a tour of the island and do the normal tourist things – we’ve heard you can hire a taxi for the day and they’ll take you to all the sights and tell you all about them so that may be a good idea. Our accommodation has a BBQ and swimming pool so we will probably spend plenty of time there and invite any other rowers who get in around the same time as us (we’ve already spoken to Elin & Herdip on Dream Maker about this). If anyone has any other suggestions, we’d love to hear them as we’d hate to miss out on things while we’re there. In the meantime, we continue to battle the rough seas and high winds that have returned today and try to stop ourselves going too far South – this is becoming more and more important the closer we get as the finish line is only a mile wide! We’ve now got less than 200 miles to go (188 according to our GPS) so another bottle of champagne is about to be cracked open and we have one ready for 100 miles to go and one for first sight of land, then the last one to spray everywhere when we step foot on dry land! Getting there slowly!!!! Messages:- Jo McKelvey – thank you so much for sorting out my car tax and house keys (genius thinking – do you get paid to do that?) we haven’t had the email about travel arrangements yet though and I checked before sending this. Elaine Columna – It’s great to hear from you and thank you for the offer of a bottle of Champers (never get bored of that). I’ll be in Westminster one evening shortly after returning I’m sure. Will give you a call. Kim @ Yachtpals.com – thank you for relaying messages about Antigua Yacht Club and ABSAR. We’ll definitely go to the yacht club and hopefully have the chance to meet up with some members of Yachtpals. As there will be 5 members of our families out in Antigua, it would be a bit difficult to say who would like to go on the rescue boat so we think it would be better to have them all waiting for us together. Hilary – thank you for keeping up the daily messages, they’re brilliant to read. It sounds like you’ve been living our experience too. Kath Lewis – can’t wait to catch up with you over a few drinks, cuppa and favourite food! Russell Stynes – Hey there, great to hear from you. Would be nice to catch up when we get back and tell you all about it. Syd Cottle – Now we have a bombardment of texts – cheers, very entertaining. Love and Hugs to you all from Lin & Rachel |
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