Regatta Continues

Model made with styrofoam hull.

Busy, busy with little time to rest!  What a great second week of Regatta.  Monday was the small boat races.  They had small model boat races mostly made by kids. 

Sailing Inflatables

  Then there were sailing inflatables which could have used whatever they wanted for wind power.  Some used kites (which did not work), bed sheets, tarps, and umbrellas.  It was great fun to watch. 

Next were small sailboat races.  My favorite was the Sunfish with the sailing dog.  They also had kayak races which I would have liked to enter but our friend Don on Jubilee was giving an infosession on photography which I wanted to attend.  Not enough hours in the day to do everything!

 

I once again tried Bocci in the tournament.  It was my partner’s second time playing also.  We should have got a prize for the fastest team to be eliminated.  Boom, bang, it was a shut out at 13 – 0!  I think I need to practice more.  Later that day we were a team with the Mershons for Trivial Pursuit.  The only thing we walked away with was a memory of the beautiful radiant sunset and how some people dressed for the “Pure Gold” theme.

 

Wednesday was the Around Stocking Island race so Al and Dave sailed on Jubilee with Don and Sue and Doug from Bad Boy.  Toni and I decided to take advantage of the day away from the guys to hit the stores and have lunch at the Peace n’ Plenty, a nice restaurant and hotel in town.  It was so nice not to eat hamburger or ribs, the mainstay of the restaurants in the Bahamas!  After the guys returned we went to St. Francis Resort for a post race party where I was one of the judges for the baked goods made on the boats that raced that day.  It was a snap judging seven entries, much different than judging 30-80 or more items at many of the local fairs that I judge back home.  

The next day was slow with Al wanting to attend the infosession on fishing.  I hope he learned something for the trip back seeing he hasn’t caught anything with that new fishing rod he got for Christmas.  The morning was spent getting the extension of 90 more days to be able to stay in the Bahamas.  Why they just don’t give you the 180 days at the beginning is beyond me.

I am explaining about rug hooking.

Hooked Rug Display

Friday was the Arts and Crafts fair at Volleyball Beach.  I displayed my hooked rugs and had fun educating people on the process and getting some people interested in the hobby.  I had found one other fellow rug hooker on a boat who displayed her things next to me.

In the afternoon I went to the “ Eating Well on a Boat”  infosession.  She demonstrated making bread, English muffins, an apple pie, and pizza on the beach.  Since I do food demonstrations, I know how much work it is to put together a demo, but to bring everything from a boat in a dinghy had to be a lot of work!   We got to sample her Lobster Dip and Banana Muffins. Yum!  

2nd Place Winner, Al, Dave, Don, Sue and D

 Awards night had our guys take second place in the Class A boats for the Around the Island race and afterwards another romp roaring dance at the Chat ‘n Chill.

Rope Dancer

Kids Junkanoo band with a little adult help.

The last day of Regatta was Saturday and it ended with the Talent Show chair by our friend and fellow sailing club member Sue Engler on Jubilee.  It was a lot of fun with great acts including singers, a Bahamian modern dance group, a child’s Junkanoo band, the high school band, a rope dancer (the guys really liked her!), a skit that had a sax player and an opera singer included and others.  It was a great way to end the two weeks over in Regatta Park in George Town even though it was a brisk windy night.

We plan to leave to start heading back in the next day or two.  We have to wait and see which direction the wind blows to determine where we will go.  We would like to go to Cat Island but the wind often does not co-operate.  Dave and Toni have guest coming next week so they will be staying as well as Jubilee will be staying for the rally to Long Island.  So we will be parting ways  for awhile but might catch each other later in the waterway or the Chesapeake.