Comments on: The Sooner These Miserable Sods Leave, The Better

By: yener

yener — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:55:54 +0000

Very well said & expressed Jamie,youre proving to be the person I thought you are,i will always be proud to say that you two are my friends…Move them ,make them think why they are here on this planet,a little bit of truth said to their faces,often works positive wonders..Reserved if they are, with their stupid acts they deserve everything you say…Keep on moving, love to read your podcasts you are great..Lots of love from Bodrum

By: antony + davina

antony + davina — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:57:36 +0000

Well said Jamie! It looks like we left Cochin at the right time! I sometimes wonder why these people bother travelling the world – do they expect everywhere to be like England?

As you know, like you, we loved India and really enjoyed our time there and were sad to leave.

We are now enjoying The Maldives and it is not as expensive as we thought – unless you go to a 5* resort! We would recommend boaters to come here as the people are really friendly, check-in is easy, cruising is excellent, snorkelling is fantastic and the beaches are beautiful.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:44:06 +0000

I sailed 6 days before the ARC when I delivered a yacht to Antigua back in 2003. We met a few nice participants but there were a lot of idiots too. That story about them hiring out the bar and closing it to non-participants makes me sick. A ‘Caribbean Experience’, my ass! Sometimes I really do think us Brits sail round the world convinced we still own these locations. Are you writing from St Lucia? That is one beautiful place. I spent most of my time there hanging out with the local lads.

I should make the point that the people to whom I refer in this post are NOT the Vasco Da Gama participants. There was, however, one rather moody French skipper who was more concerned about hosing off bird poo from his bow than leaving the marina with the VdG rally before the tide turned. He had everyone on stand-by with lines and fenders, with two more boats ready to leave after him, whilst he purposely dragged his heals to make a point that he would be leaving when HE was ready. He was missing the point: slack tide is only 10 minutes, after which the 56ft cat would not have got out. The previous week the cat had tried to get in after slack water and ended up scraping his hull on our anchor. The ignorance of the situation, watching this chap nonchalantly hose crap off his boat whilst all around him were people shouting for him to get a move on, was beyond ludicrous. It was just a classic yachting comedy moment, but I guess you had to be there