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Free Spirit - 24 Nov Today we set sail for Saint Lucia



Well this is it!  The day has arrived!  Today we set sail for Saint Lucia!  After 19 full on days in Las Palmas we are ready to go!  Yes!!  Our days have been filled with seminars, safety inspections, briefings, problem solving, lists of jobs to be done, repairs and boat shopping and oh yes a few parties.  All of this we did without hardly stepping foot outside the marina except for one day when Peter and I hired a car and spent the day touring the island.  We discovered just what a spectacular island this is with mountains reaching to dizzying heights and canyons plunging to dizzying depths below.  I even started to think  “I feel safer at sea”…..(I know)…
Anyway, back to our departure.  We have had the most amazing send-off starting with the ARC Farewell Party with fireworks and dancing girls and then all the people who came to wave us off, (not forgetting Sue and Ross who flew down from Liverpool), the band playing and hooters blowing right down to the final count down.  It was quite emotional for me really, fear and excitement mixed in equal measure and lots of hugs and well wishing.  So we leave Las Palmas with 219 other boats and about 2700 miles to go to St Lucia.

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