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S/Y Irony: SUNSET SPECTACLE
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Saturday, 11 September 2010. Grenada has the most spectacular sunsets of anywhere we have been in the Caribbean, maybe it's something to do with its position? Nowhere else are the colours so intense, especially the deep blue, or seen on such a majestic scale. Friday night outdid itself and gave us a full arch double rainbow. My photos couldn't do it justice but the memory lives on. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. In a larger map. WORK, WORK, WORK! Check out Our New Blog!
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S/Y Irony: WORK, WORK, WORK!
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Thursday, 9 September 2010. WORK, WORK, WORK! We've finally finished stripping the coach roof and have got a few layers of paint on. The weather is not cooperating.a torrential downpour stopped work yesterday and it has been raining continuously today. Open bolt holes cause us to have plastic trays under the ceiling in the saloon to catch water coming through! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Nic and Michele Cutler have been living on their steel ketch, Irony, since July 2002. They have sailed aro...
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S/Y Irony: September 2010
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Monday, 20 September 2010. A very welcome day off on Sunday brought fun and games on Hog Island. Organised a Kayak tug o' war competition off the beach by Roger's bar. Teams of 2 (one in the dinghy, the other in the water) fought it out, trying to pull the opposition's kayak across the anchored marker, a rather fetching decoy duck. Rules were loose and cheating obligatory, leading to kayaks being turned over and the duck being moved! Today work has been rained out; will we ever get these jobs finished?
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S/Y Irony: August 2010
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Friday, 27 August 2010. Fortunately we paid for an extra hand on the first day but our helper was not prepared to put in a second day! Some of the earliest sections we've done have 3 coats of fresh (costly) paint and it's going to be incredibly difficult to get it back to metal again. It will be several gruelling Groundhog days before we reach the same point again. Oh yes and I forgot to mention the dinghy is leaking again so will need another long glue session very soon. Links to this post. Tobago Cays ...
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S/Y Irony: January 2010
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Sunday, 24 January 2010. We were joined in St Martin by Nic's mother, Chrissy, on 12th January. We rented a car and toured the island visiting its many lovely beaches. The Dutch capital, Phillipsburg, is lovely, despite being a major cruise ship destination. The next day, we sailed around to Baie Orientale and anchored overnight before sailing down to St Barth on particularly rainy, grey day. We stopped at Ile Fourchue on our way back to St Martin - uninhabited it has a desolate charm and good snorkelling.
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S/Y Irony: VICTORY!
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Monday, 20 September 2010. A very welcome day off on Sunday brought fun and games on Hog Island. Organised a Kayak tug o' war competition off the beach by Roger's bar. Teams of 2 (one in the dinghy, the other in the water) fought it out, trying to pull the opposition's kayak across the anchored marker, a rather fetching decoy duck. Rules were loose and cheating obligatory, leading to kayaks being turned over and the duck being moved! Today work has been rained out; will we ever get these jobs finished?
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S/Y Irony: ON, ON!
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Sunday, 12 September 2010. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Nic and Michele Cutler have been living on their steel ketch, Irony, since July 2002. They have sailed around the Mediterranean and down to the Red Sea. In 2008 they left the Mediterranean for Morocco and the Canaries. They crossed the Atlantic in Feb 2009 after visiting Senegal and the Gambia. They are now cruising the Caribbean. View my complete profile. In a larger map. WORK, WORK, WORK! There was an error in this gadget. It's been a stran...
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S/Y Irony: April 2010
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Friday, 30 April 2010. 10 fun-filled days with Andrea. Andrea arrived on Monday afternoon sadly missing the last of the racing in the morning. On Sunday we watched the gig races and enjoyed a cream tea on the lawns of Admiral’s Inn in English Harbour. The next day we rented a car and toured the island ending up at Shirley Heights for its spectacular sunset view across both English and Falmouth harbours. We then moved around to Low Bay and had a great beach BBQ with another boat, Belle. The next day we sn...
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S/Y Irony: June 2010
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010. Hurricane season is well and truly upon us and the buzz is that this year will be an active lively one. We were anxiously watching the development of a tropical wave out in the Atlantic last week with predictions at one stage that it had a 60% chance of developing into a tropical cyclone. We made the decision to stay in St Martin until it passed rather than be caught sailing into it on our way south. Torrential rain washed off the salt last night and continued through this mornin...
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S/Y Irony: Trials and Tribulations
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Friday, 27 August 2010. Fortunately we paid for an extra hand on the first day but our helper was not prepared to put in a second day! Some of the earliest sections we've done have 3 coats of fresh (costly) paint and it's going to be incredibly difficult to get it back to metal again. It will be several gruelling Groundhog days before we reach the same point again. Oh yes and I forgot to mention the dinghy is leaking again so will need another long glue session very soon. Nic and Michele Cutler have been...
