Bragged Off!

A transatlantic tale of late life crises and naughtycal adventures

Vessel Name: Brag
Vessel Make/Model: Island Packet 420
Hailing Port: West Loch Tarbert
Crew: Brian Steven & Agnes Wilkie
About: Husband and wife relinquished lives in fast lanes of finance (him) and tv (her) for bliss-on-a-boat
Extra: 2017 marks the Big Cast Off: from Tarbert to St Lucia via Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Gran Canaria then the ARC
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05 May 2018 | US Virgin Islands
04 May 2018 | Charlotte Amalle
03 May 2018 | Charlotte Amalle
03 May 2018 | Charlotte Amallia
01 May 2018 | USVI
01 May 2018 | Hawksnest Bay USVI
01 May 2018 | St John USVI
25 April 2018
25 April 2018 | Coopers Beach Club, Cooper Island
17 April 2018 | Soper’s Hole
16 April 2018 | Cane Garden Bay Tortola BVI
16 April 2018 | Lee Bay, Camouan Island
16 April 2018 | Anegada BVI
14 April 2018 | CARIBBEAN sea
08 April 2018 | St Maarten
08 April 2018 | St Maarten
08 April 2018 | Simpson Bay St Maarten
08 April 2018 | St Maarten
08 April 2018 | STATIA
Recent Blog Posts
05 May 2018 | US Virgin Islands

BYE BYE BRAG

The End

04 May 2018 | Charlotte Amalle

ITS THE FINAL CARIBBEAN CURTAIN

03 May 2018 | Charlotte Amalle

WHO WOULD TRUE VALOUR SEE

03 May 2018 | Charlotte Amallia

IS OIL THE SPAWN OF THE DEVIL?

01 May 2018 | USVI

MURDER

01 May 2018 | Hawksnest Bay USVI

THIS IS ALSO AMERICA

Shore Powerless in Muxia with Yummy Goose Barnacles

12 July 2017 | Muxia
Ag/dreich
We had a beautiful sail down from a Coruña to Camariñas in blazing sunshine with 12 knots SW winds on a beam reach - I think that's what was promised...?
Instead we got 20knts on the nose in a heaving sea I can only compare to the Mull of Kintyre on a grey day with engine on almost constantly for 11 hours. Yip, 50mls in 11 hours - even Brian's first Mini was faster than us.
And when we got to the warm and welcoming little harbour of Camiriñas, there was nothing warm nor welcoming in the only available berth rafting up against a very piratey looking Spanish yacht so we upped fenders and went to Muxia instead and got a warm and welcoming reception from a young guy on a turbo charged electric bike. He speeds faster than a Ferrari or have my speed buds been spoiled by our stately progress? Anyway, turns out he's harbourmaster come petrol station manager simultaneously. All conversations abruptly interrupted by a never ending stream of cars wanting filled up so they can go fast. So it took a while to work out that our shore power line is shorting the entire marina's supply...
It was a long time before Kinsale's quiches and Heinz' baked beans were served last night. And our shore powerlessness will no doubt provide today's big adventures in nautucalia...whilst a storm brews out in the Atlantic. For days. And days. And days.
More to come from Muxia and its scrmmy looking barnacles, I fear...
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