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
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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
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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

IS OIL THE SPAWN OF THE DEVIL?

03 May 2018 | Charlotte Amallia
Ag/hit

As our transatlantic adventures come to an end in a flurry of sails off, on and off again, cleaning, polishing, dinghy deflating, packing, unpacking and generally doing everything three times before we get it right, strikes me that amidst this plethora of persecution, changing the engine and generator oil is the Room 101 of sailing. I mean, one sails to be free as a bird, at one with the winds and the seas, clean pure unadulterated fresh airs with all the graces etc etc etc. And then the black evil that is oil strikes.
Yesterday was The Longest Day. Brian spent it in the engine compartment relieved only by a few hours in the aft cockpit when he swopped engine for generator. I de rusted, washed and polished on deck. And passed tools. And supplied kitchen roll. And applied psychotherapy.
Didn’t work. We’re not talking. I blame the oil.
PS Actually today is competing for Longest Day title as we were up at 5am taking the head and stay sails off “before the wind gets up”.... But....he had to talk to me. And say please.
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