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Free & BrEasy - Much Ado About Very Little



Team FBy have been in Shelter Bay for 4 days now and have settled into a routine. Skipper Roger spends most of the time emailing and emitting gushes of steam at the frustrating lack of progress with getting things ordered and delivered before we leave on the 28th January. We are waiting for a new inverter, storm jib and toilet valve. Unfortunately the latter is a through hull fitting and Roger would prefer to be hauled out here, to fit it, rather than rely on the smaller Marina in Flamenco bay. It has been suggested that we only need someone on the outside of the hull with a sink plunger to stop water coming in but what if it does not work or comes off? Any way we need the valve to arrive first.


Michael 1 has set up his office in the terrace resteraunt and is presumably buying and selling his shares to great profit! No he is actually making arrangements for his wife, Ruth, and daughters Melissa and Carla, to rendezvous with us in the Galapagos. It will be great for Roger and Michael 2 to meet them as we feel we know them already! Michael 2 has been shuffling around the Marina every morning in full Hash House Harrier gear trying to stay fit. Running in the jungle with the sound of Howler Monkeys in full voice, is a bit scary. He has also been making Team FBy suffer with attempts to sing folk classics accompanied by a guitar very kindly loaned by Don from Avocet. Even worse he is threatening to buy a guitar and make this a permanent feature of the next 15 months. Nobody escapes the renditions from the Singing Sailor on FBy!


We ventured out to the Rey shopping centre and on the way the van stopped as two giant warehouses (which turned out to be container ships) slid slowly past on the canal. We could no tell if the road was slipping sideways or the ships were moving. The canal and the construction of the new canal locks, are impressive. We noticed at the shopping centre that the women had more curves than usual. Maybe this is just testosterone-fuelled three men in a boat fever but proof that Latin American tastes are different was evident in the female shop front manikins which all possessed very large breasts, at least to our eyes!


Great rum tasting session last night. We were each given four glasses of different rums and told to detect the different aromas and tastes; toffee, caramel, brown sugar, honey, banana....but not much good if you don't have a sense of smell. Did not dare ask for a Coca Cola mixer, particularly as one bottle cost 180$! We then waited around for the pig roast and amazingly somehow were the first in the queue for the pork which proved to be lucky as the pork ran out before the end of the queue! Lovely evening and it was a pleasure to get to know Russ and Laurie from Nexus. The evening was capped with a show from the local police force practicing their Miami Vice routine on the nearby air strip complete with screeching tyres and blue flashing lights!


Four days to go before the transit so the the count down for the ordered goods is really on. We had our admeasuring session this morning which was mainly instructions on what to feed the pilot while on board. The Pilots'obviously travel on their stomachs!


Michael 2


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