Today we saw another boat we met in St. Lucia arrive – David who has a Fountaine Pajot Tobago called Nauticat. He is has brought his boat up here to be lifted for the hurricane season. He called over this afternoon and invited us over for a drink later to exchange cruising notes. He was obviously slightly surprised to see us here thinking we would be the other side of the Panama canal by now.
We went across to see David at about 5.30pm and discovered we covered much the same path in the last few months, though had seen each other only once in Tobago Cays when he’d been heading north coming from Grenada and we were still heading south.
We exchanged several tips and compared our FP experiences. David told us he’d managed to get a very impressive 12-13knots out of his 35ft Tobago in the Heineken Regatta this year which he enters each year. Although he did admit that his main gave way soon afterwards!
We returned back to Invincible after dark for some food and were treated to the sound of bag pipes which we both enjoy coming from one of the nearby boats. We were quite amused by the complications on travelling with bagpipes. However, I hope that whoever it was felt rewarded when he/she received a round of applause and cheers from the whole anchorage later!
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