The remainder of our time in Portsmouth was really spent trying to get
everything fixed on Magnum and attempting to keep cool. Mark managed to fix our furling gear on the
head sail, big relief and did it him self by ordering all the parts online
(mainly from Amazon!). we have new guardrails, again Mark ordered the wire and
tool to complete this and another really important fix before moving on was our
DuoGen windgenerator, new parts from UK and all fixed.
We had our first experience of a Baseball Game, we were to
see the Norfolk Tides play and now I have forgotten who they played! It was a
great game, the day before 4th of July so it was really busy with
families. We caught the ferry across
from Norfolk and were sat quite high up in the
stand but we could see fine and the atmosphere was great which was probably made
better by the fact that Norfolk
were thrashing the other team.
 |
| Tides pitching |
 |
| Entertainment between innings with people in sandwich suits it was a race! |
The weather was high 30’s during this time without a decent
fan the boat was unbearably hot! So most nights were spent enjoying cocktails
with our neighbours on D dock, we were so lucky to have met such lovely people
and really been welcomed to the US
even on July 4th when we shared a BBQ and “Bushwakers” - great cocktail with Baileys, Deserano, Rum
and Kahlua. .
Our final send of night was topped off with vodka jelly shooters, it was sad to say goodbye to such great people
No comments:
Post a Comment