11/14/05 Carriacou Regatta II

Last Wednesday Peggy, Mike and I went to Carriacou for a sailing regatta. Mike and I stayed at Scraper’s place. Alas, Mike did not get to enjoy being awoken by Scraper’s scraping because he had on a new pair of sandals that had straps over his ankle which prevented the scraping.

Peggy has a friend from Trinidad with a racing sailboat that needed an extra crew person so I got on a real racing boat! The boat was a bright orange/red sloop rig called Wajang which means a wild and wicked woman. You can sort of see me in the middle of all the crew. We got Mike on Gans which was the boat that I was on during the last regatta.

Both of us had a great time although I ended up a little more beat up. After the first day of sailing Mike had to head back to Grenada to catch his flight home. Too bad because he missed a great lobster grillout on the beach! He said that he had a really good time during his trip and promised that he’d come back in the spring to teach me how to catch a fish.

We had one race a day for 3 days and it was a good thing that it didn’t go any longer. The shortest race was 2.5 hours and the longest was 6 hours. The weather was mostly cooperative with good winds and only a small amount of rain. By the end of the last race all of my pointy parts were well bruised!

Saturday night was the prize giving and Wajang came in 3rd place of the racing class (out of three but who’s keeping count?). There’s Peggy and Darcy at the party. Darcy was the captain of Wajang. The crew is planning on bringing Wajang to Grenada for the regattas in January and March so hopefully I’ll get on that boat again!