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

PORT- PORT- PORTUGAL!

20 July 2017 | Póvoa de Varzim
Ag/sunny but blowing a hooley
We sailed out of Baiona at dawn - a dirty grey wet miserable start to a 50-odd mile sail down the Atlantic coast and just to remind non nauticals that's at least ten hours as our crow crawls... but it got better. We tacked and we tacked and we were doing 7knts and the rain stopped and we crossed the maritime border and hey the sun came out, the skies turned blue and it was bliss. Portuguese bliss. But obviously there had to be a drama and once again I did it. Having landed beautifully in one of our best and definitely cheapest marinas so far, the big boys were playing with mooring lines which can take a while/days/weeks so I decided to take on the awesome responsibility of turning off the engine....yip, I reverted to car convention and turned the ignition key off. Nothing happened. So I shoogled it. Still nothing. And I then I thought (unusually technically for me): bet it's still in gear! So I shoogled that. It wasn't in gear. Only then did it come back to me that you MUST depress the red Stop button first then it beeps at you, then you turn off the ignition. And that's how you switch off a Boat engine.
Otherwise major major catastrophe involving every orifice opened up, extensive use of foul language and predictions of death, pestilence and plagues of locusts ensue....all to the hideous soundtrack of Diesel engine-without-its-off-button...
An hour later, after fuel line disconnected and the reconnected or some sort of boaty black magic, we're back in the boat business. But another v close call for Brag - she was nearly back on the market there...
Pic is of my browning legs and the Portuguese courtesy flag flying on Brag's mast from my favourite sun lounging position! Happy days - we're here for a while...Porto and Douro River to explore = port and wine tastings forever!🍷🍷🍷
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