Altair's Cruz Nuz

cruising, vb, kroozing, working on your boat in exotic locations around the Caribbean....Dudley and Becca

25 October 2012 | Coconut Grove Sailing Club
25 September 2012 | Coconut Grove Sailing Club
28 July 2011 | Coconut Grove Sailing Club!
27 July 2011 | Key Biscayne, Florida
27 July 2011 | Stiltsville and Miami just across the Bay.
27 July 2011 | Gulf Stream...
27 July 2011 | Gulf Stream, Here we come!
26 July 2011 | Sweet and Very Special Bahamas...Goodbye...for now!
26 July 2011 | Honeymoon Harbor
26 July 2011 | Gun Cay's floral gifts!
26 July 2011 | The surf at Honeymoon Harbor!
26 July 2011 | Our last island wonderland...before the Concrete Jungle....
26 July 2011 | Gun Cay...Practicing walking on land...
26 July 2011 | Honeymoon Harbor...very cool!
26 July 2011 | Honeymoon Harbor
26 July 2011 | Honeymoon Harbor...We like it!
25 July 2011 | A very Busy Honeymoon Harbor!
25 July 2011 | Honeymoon Harbor, Lee side of Gun Cay
25 July 2011 | Bimini, Our Beloved Bahamas!
24 July 2011 | Bimini, Big Game Club Marina!

Monday Night Mas (Masque)

10 August 2009 | Dancing/Parading around the Lagoon Preview!
Becca
Tomorrow is the big parade of bands and costumes that we've been syked about, hearing about and the excitement has been steadily rising!

Tonight is the Monday Night Mas and we are taking cameras with no idea what this evening would bring! We all headed out the marina driveway, a road really, when we found to our delight a truck with "Merlin" costumes for sale! They were pretty darned reasonable, so Lucy, Richard and Moi donned our pointy jewel studded blinking merlin hat, our battery operated wands that we would be instructed to wave all thru the evening, and our t-shirts were cleverly designed with a magical, spellbinding spash to complement our flashing wrist bands and ankle bands.

It's only a recent phenomenon but Monday Nite Mas is a highly anticipated event. A T-shirt party and theatrical show, it is set against the backdrop of the cooling evening temperature with steady winds blowing across the picturesque Carenage harbour and waterfront. It's the Carenage - or "The Wharf'' as many Grenadians are wont to call the place - that's the main thoroughfare for Monday Nite Mas.

This is getting to be a pattern that we are liking...alot! We danced all night right along with locals that loved sharing the traditions and energy!

Thank you Grenada!

Dudley and Bec
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Vessel Name: Altair
Vessel Make/Model: Tartan 34'
Hailing Port: Coconut Grove Sailing Club
Crew: Dudley Clark and Becky Butler
About: Dudley has owned this Tartan sloop and has been cruising on her since 1986. Becky joined the good sloop back in 2000 when we first started cruising together and he has been 'training' me ever since! I couldn't be happier! I've been sailing all my life, but cruising is a whole different fish!
Extra: This is the most extended cruise we've braved on this wonderful, old boat of ours which is planned to be about 2 years! We left Miami in late February of 2008 and want to get below the hurricane belt by the end of July! Ok, so it's July, 2011...we're close, but not home yet!

S/V ALTAIR

Who: Dudley Clark and Becky Butler
Port: Coconut Grove Sailing Club