I realise I haven't posted for over a month, but since the iPad and iPhone shat themselves, I haven't been able to upload photos, so I'll wait til I get to London and Apple can fix/replace their rubbish products before updating in full...
But a brief rundown of events from the last month, which i will use as a reminder for later expansion:
Panama - San Blas Islands
went to the San Blas islands for 4-5 days. Awesome coral islands, andtoo much sun and booze...
Panama - Portobello & Talofa
Joined Talofa in Portobello, went cruising to teh San Blas islands (yep, again). Awesome in a boat. Met up with other boats from Columbia for parties on beach. Fired the cannons on board Talofa (yes, we had cannons), and led a pirate raiding party to the beach to kidap the saucy wenches. Yep, we played pirates...
Talofa - to US Virgin Islands
headed off for the deivery. Into winds and current all the way, so motor sailed all the time. two days in, realised we vcouldnt make it directly to USVI, so detoured to Jamaica! Wicked! Ripped mainsail two days out of Jamaica, so only motor - very rolly. called in to Domican Republic for more fuel & oil. Big squall off Puerto Rico including water spouts and freezing winds (microburst?). Arrived US Virgin Islands. Charlotte Amalie highest murder rate in the Americas - gunfire every night. Didn't know this of course until after we'd gotten pissed and went to the 'local' part of town looking for local bars. Hightailed it to British Virgin Islands.
BVI
Road Town superb. Cricket on the telly, and way friendly people. went to Royal BVI Yacht Club and got a ride for the Anegade Race (biggest and most prestigeous island to island race in Caribbean). Got third. Got pissed. Great sail back next day. Fantastic Club and people, had offers to stay on boats and couches instead of (expensive) hotel, but leaving soon...
Leaving tomorrow!
Got a ride to the Canaries (or Azores, depends on weather). leave tomorrow morning. 4-5 weeks (hopefully not much more), then probably fly to England, get iPad fixed, and update this blog with some PHOTOS!
