Characters from the Regatta Party
03 March 2015 | Bahamas, George Town
Elizabeth (photo by Dennis)
Dan and Cliff from s/v Gypsy Rose (left and middle) crewed on s/v Island Hopper along with Ed during the Around the Island race on Saturday. Igor is on the right and he has two women on his sailboat Van Dutch who were the bikini-clad crew on Island Hopper. One of the women Roz is from Australia and Sylvia is French Canadian. Igor is known by all the cruisers in George Town because he has items for sell, barter or trade EVERY SINGLE DAY during the cruiser's morning radio net. Most of the items he lists have not been mentioned before and we all scratch our heads trying to figure out where it all comes from. Igor is Ukrainian, Dan is German, and Cliff in the middle is American. He is crew on Dan's boat for now and happens to be good friends with a cruising couple we know from our first year out in the Grenadines. It's a small community.
Today on the cruiser's net Ed was giving away 5 Shipyard Pumpkinhead beers which he doesn't like and won't drink. On the rare occasions I drink a beer it wouldn't be that particular kind. Ed refused to keep them on hand for guests or visitors, he simply wanted them "off the boat!" Igor hailed him back immediately after the net and said he would love to have the beers because Pumpkinhead is one of his favorites. When we dropped the beer off at s/v Van Dutch this morning we kidded with his female crew and said we'll expect to hear Igor selling beer during tomorrow's net. When a woman on another vessel called later in the day saying she needed a beer after a hard morning and wondered if we still had some to give away, I told her what had happened to the 5 bottles and she laughed and said the same thing.