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36o 03.0’ North 33o 35.0’ West
This blog is being written with ‘Rule Britannia’ being played in the
background. We are celebrating by doing all things English today: Mike is being
made to speak our language, the traditional slagging off of the French will
occur at 2pm, fortunately rain is expected later and it’s chicken vindaloo for
supper.
With less than 400 miles to go it appears that we
are to pay for our easy passage – take a look at the radiofax weather charts
from Boston, http://weather.noaa.gov/fax/marine.shtml
(these are the ones we get on the HF radio), and you’ll find a sneaky low
creeping up behind us – How about that; the Jem blog goes interactive! – Gales
for us tonight.
The days in our little world fly by and it is with mixed feelings that the end
of our voyage approaches. For Brian we can’t get there soon enough. The
bread roll has been perfected and there is a bun in another oven that he needs
to get home for (Yo Gran’ Pops!). Jim wants to keep going and fancies Morocco and Mike, oddly, keeps
talking about Martinique, shall I show him the
chart? Any safe harbour will do for me, actually one with a laundrette would be
nice: 4 guys, small warm space – get where I’m going here?
We have been keeping abreast of world events none more so than the Bailey Beach
Swimming Pool Scandal in Rowayton CT (For those not in the know Mike is
Rowayton’s Commissioner (mayor), where better to cut your Presidential teeth
than in local government {Oops – did I let that slip!}). The issue: a pool for
the community, built, run and funded by that community, come on guys what’s the
problem? Team Jem say, “YES”; if it’s a disaster at least you’ll have a nice,
possibly rather square, duck pond. Oh and by the way absentee ballot forms have
been printed by your Commissioner and are available at Jem’s Nav Station should
anyone wish to come and pick one up.
We Brits are enormously impressed by the involvement of the community, had it
been UK residents wanting a pool
they would have got nowhere even if public funds had been found. Six
years later, after the council had spent half the sum available on consultants
and feasibility studies, we would have discovered that the majority of the
money was spent on ‘pool towels’ bearing the logo “London Olympics 2008” that turn out to have
been made by a company owned by the Treasurer’s brother.
Must go and batten down a hatch.
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