Beautiful days,............ Crystal waters.........White canvas sails dotting the horizon, (which is much closer as you get older) and white sand beaches that let you know you are in GLORIOUS PARADISE, or as close as you are ever going to get to it........... We have joined the TIDA WAVE camp in celebrating their first few races and yesterday I went for a very short sail with them........ And that alone was an experience never to be forgotten.........Then there was a head count at the start, only to realise they had one too many non-Bahamians on board, (you are allowed four in "A" class), so I volunteered to exit, rather than incur a possible protest. (They said "No worry Mon, stay sittin") ...... which works only as long as you don't win or get a place.... The start of that race is on the video clip below........and TIDA WAVE came in third ......so just as well............Then again, with my weight out on the 'pry' they might have come in second...........
The sails are all locally sewn from raw Egyptian cotton canvas and they have a unique plywood headboard hand stitched to the sail...............
We have taken probably more than 300 photos and no idea what to do with them...... Everyone is a sailing 'screensaver' ...............and everyone of them is an inspiration on what to do for your next holiday in the Autumn, Summer, Winter or anytime ...... Everyone of them is worth looking at while you are sitting in the traffic or collecting the bills from your mailbox........... Unless you were crew on the boat (above) which has about three ton of lead ballast inside her and is sitting solidly on the bottom in about 12 feet of water................. The Bahamian Defence Force vessel eventually arrived and with full power simply pulled her along the bottom fast enough to bring her to the surface, and then she sank again near the docks when they slowed down. Today they are diving down and lifting the ballast ingots out of her one at the time, before pumping begins...............
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