Preparing to leave Bermuda
Preparing to leave Bermuda – 14th June
Its Sunday morning and we are preparing to leave Bermuda tomorrow for the next leg (long leg) of our journey. We’ll check in with our weather router today and ask his opinion, but our reading of the weather charts looks like we can probably head east for a couple of days while a low moves north east of us, then we can head more north east, in the general direction of the Azores.
Some of the other boats I have mentioned in earlier entries have already gone; Saudade left last Monday, Sheli left Thursday, a new English boat we met a couple of days ago, Wagtail, left yesterday. Our new friends Rob and Sue on Barbarossa are also leaving around the same time, though they don’t have SSB radio and nobody wants to be sailing too close to another boat it will be nice to know that someone else is out there – not too far away.
We’ve enjoyed St. George’s Bay very much, the anchorage has been really pleasant in general. The Dinghy and Sports Club facility close to us has been useful, and quite a source of entertainment. They hosted some of the tall ships which are still here in Hamilton and will leave tomorrow. Plus a race from Newport to Bermuda just finished at the club a couple of days ago, which has put quite a few more race boats at anchor around us.
Yesterday while we were walking around town we walked past a house which had a couple of pretty old mopeds outside – Mobylets, I think that’s the name. They had been put outside the garage which the owner was sweeping, and seemed to be on display for sale. The owner, whose name is Chris told us that these mopeds were used in the movie, The Deep. Anyone who knows Tony probably knows that this is one of his favourite movies. The story is based around scuba diving – treasure hunting and voodoo stuff and was filmed here in Bermuda in the 70’s. The stars were Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset. So Chris looks quite like an older version of Nick Nolte, and at the time of the movie he was a young lad making deliveries to the set for his father’s company.
The casting director thought he was Nick Nolte’s stand in stunt man, so that’s what he became. We actually watched the movie again last night and slowed down the scenes that Chris told us about – sure enough we recognized him and the mopeds.
Our water catcher has been working pretty well over the last couple of days, when we have had periods of torrential rain. It’s a big scoope shaped thing I made out of very good tarp material and it has a hose mounted in the bottom of the scoop which goes directly into one of our tank deck fittings. Because it doesn’t cover a huge area its not catching gallons but it is made to work if we are underway, providing the seas aren’t too high on the high side. We’ve not put water in the tanks since leaving Jamaica, so its been keeping up with our usage. As we’ll probably have some rain during our crossing its nice to know we can use this to augment our water supply. We also have a stock of extra drinking water in the bilge, plus 10 gallons in jerry cans on deck.
Its Sunday morning and we are preparing to leave Bermuda tomorrow for the next leg (long leg) of our journey. We’ll check in with our weather router today and ask his opinion, but our reading of the weather charts looks like we can probably head east for a couple of days while a low moves north east of us, then we can head more north east, in the general direction of the Azores.
Some of the other boats I have mentioned in earlier entries have already gone; Saudade left last Monday, Sheli left Thursday, a new English boat we met a couple of days ago, Wagtail, left yesterday. Our new friends Rob and Sue on Barbarossa are also leaving around the same time, though they don’t have SSB radio and nobody wants to be sailing too close to another boat it will be nice to know that someone else is out there – not too far away.
We’ve enjoyed St. George’s Bay very much, the anchorage has been really pleasant in general. The Dinghy and Sports Club facility close to us has been useful, and quite a source of entertainment. They hosted some of the tall ships which are still here in Hamilton and will leave tomorrow. Plus a race from Newport to Bermuda just finished at the club a couple of days ago, which has put quite a few more race boats at anchor around us.
Yesterday while we were walking around town we walked past a house which had a couple of pretty old mopeds outside – Mobylets, I think that’s the name. They had been put outside the garage which the owner was sweeping, and seemed to be on display for sale. The owner, whose name is Chris told us that these mopeds were used in the movie, The Deep. Anyone who knows Tony probably knows that this is one of his favourite movies. The story is based around scuba diving – treasure hunting and voodoo stuff and was filmed here in Bermuda in the 70’s. The stars were Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset. So Chris looks quite like an older version of Nick Nolte, and at the time of the movie he was a young lad making deliveries to the set for his father’s company.
The casting director thought he was Nick Nolte’s stand in stunt man, so that’s what he became. We actually watched the movie again last night and slowed down the scenes that Chris told us about – sure enough we recognized him and the mopeds.
Our water catcher has been working pretty well over the last couple of days, when we have had periods of torrential rain. It’s a big scoope shaped thing I made out of very good tarp material and it has a hose mounted in the bottom of the scoop which goes directly into one of our tank deck fittings. Because it doesn’t cover a huge area its not catching gallons but it is made to work if we are underway, providing the seas aren’t too high on the high side. We’ve not put water in the tanks since leaving Jamaica, so its been keeping up with our usage. As we’ll probably have some rain during our crossing its nice to know we can use this to augment our water supply. We also have a stock of extra drinking water in the bilge, plus 10 gallons in jerry cans on deck.
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