Just to let those of you who've shown interest know that Kiera, our 22 year old granddaughter, has made safe landfall in St Georges, Grenada on Christmas Eve morning, after 21 days at sea from the Canaries.
1/6th of the way round the world since leaving Belgium on Sept 16th - her very first experience of sailing! She's in a 40ft "cat" with a French family and she's enjoyed every minute of it, despite some seasickness and "getting arms like Popeye from working the sails". She loves food and cooking and sent us a pic of the huge bacon and egg breakfast she cooked on their arrival. (Washed down with Champagne!)
Seafaring granddaughter!
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oldherbaceous
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Evening John, i've never been one for traveling far, but i do admire people that do.And it sure does sound an adventure, glad she is enjoying it.
I work for a lovely couple across the road, on a Wednesday morning, and their three youngsters are always off travelling to remote places round the world.
I work for a lovely couple across the road, on a Wednesday morning, and their three youngsters are always off travelling to remote places round the world.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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It sounds the experience of a lifetime and I'm sure she will have enjoyed it, even if her parents have been anxiously looking at weather forecasts in the part of the world in which she's been sailing and worrying about big waves! or storms. However, it may well have given her the urge for travelling now so they may have to be prepared for her to be taking off on another adventure before long after she returns.
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JohnN
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We went to see Kiera's family last Thursday and during supper her mum quietly set up a laptop at the end of the table. After a few minutes it suddenly lit up - and there was Kiera, sitting on the boat in Grenada, in 33 deg heat, chatting away to us for over half an hour! A technology called "Skype" I'm told.
Perhaps I'm being a bit mean-minded but I feel that all this instant communication with everybody (including the coastguard and rescue services I suppose) takes a lot of the adventure out of such trips. Some 40 years ago I had a film maker friend named Colin Forbes, who did a solo Atlantic crossing in a trimaran called "Startled Faun". He wrote to me from landfall in Rhode Island, obviously very relieved to be safe after 46 days at sea with nothing but a crackly radio for company! Those were the days!
Perhaps I'm being a bit mean-minded but I feel that all this instant communication with everybody (including the coastguard and rescue services I suppose) takes a lot of the adventure out of such trips. Some 40 years ago I had a film maker friend named Colin Forbes, who did a solo Atlantic crossing in a trimaran called "Startled Faun". He wrote to me from landfall in Rhode Island, obviously very relieved to be safe after 46 days at sea with nothing but a crackly radio for company! Those were the days!