Julie
06/24/2007, Block Island, USA

We just finished racing in Block Island Race Week on Yeoman XXXII. We ran into Ashley, a professional sailor who runs the boat, in Antigua (where the boat took first in its class) and had raced with her before up in Newport, RI. A few weeks later she invited us to crew on Yeoman in BIRW.

We flew from Panama City to Newark. It was really cool because a guy that follows our blog (and we had never met!) very generously picked us up from the airport and drove us all the way into the city in rush hour Friday night traffic. We spent one night with our friend Dawn in the city, then took the train and ferry up to Block Island. We met the boat and crew and the fun began. We had five great days of racing and evenings that progressed from The Oar, then the beer tent for awards and finally an excellent dinner every night at the crew house.

It was fun to be back in Block Island after so many years and to race on such a competitive boat...not to mention meeting a fabulous group of people. Once again we have the racing bug that we got last time leaving Antigua!

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Chris
06/18/2007, Block Island, Rhode Island

Look at what we get to race on for Block Island Race Week. This is Simon Rogers' latest all carbon IRC rocket. We saw Yeoman XXXII in Antigua where we snapped this photo. Lucky for us we have a friend onboard.

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Chris
06/11/2007, Colon, Panama

..Good Morning this is the Yacht Cisnecito, Please Switch to Channel 74, Channel 74, for a special announcement. Cisnecito going up."

VHF 74: "All Yachts All Yachts, Good Morning this is the Yacht Cisnecito We have just completed our round the world voyage here in Colon and would like you to celebrate with us at the Panama Canal Yacht Club today beginning at 4PM. The first several rounds of drinks are on us. Hope to see you there. Cisnecito Out."

We made the above announcement several times on our VHF radio. Then at 4PM we put a $100 dollars down on the bar and asked the bartender to keep pouring until it was spent. In Panama $100 buys a lot of booze. The ensuing party was a lot of fun and we were glad to so many yachties showed up. One of the yachties asked us to talk a little about our trip which we were unprepared for but it was fun to have the opportunity. Later in the evening one of the boats asked us over for dinner which was also enjoyable. It was so nice to so many new friends to celebrate with.

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