Mojomo is off again to yurrup in a few weeks (11th may ish) with yet another unknown crew. This lot i found at 7knots.com, exchanged a few emails and they seem okay. Hope they all turn up.
Westwards-Transat adverts tend to get yahoo wannabee american youngsters, eastwards tends to find more experienced yet middle-aged types, ish.
No, i haven't clapped eyes on any of the forthcoming crew, ever. But it usually works out, common goal, team, adversity, etc.
Lots of liveaboardy types here in st martin. A lot seem quite remote: there's a get-together every week and i remarked how i'd waded and swum to save a couple of dinghies a while back. And others said how, yes, they'd seen me. Ah, right - but done nothing? Oh well. Mind you, my own dinghy went awol (my fault, cr ap knot) from the back of the boat a few days ago and now having been at both ends of the deal I have worked out what to do. You always rescue a dinghy, and when yours gets found (even if you didn't know it had gone) you give the finder 20dollars, ish, and tellem it's not for what they've done - it's for the *next* time they find it....
New batteries, a Parasailor (sounds as tho it defends against any sailing...) and yet more engine servicing means we're just about ready to go.
I made out a postcard in St tropez last year, then lost it in a caff - but it got posted - and we saw it arrived at the rigger in st martin last week, smiles all round. He's gonna have look up the mast next week.
Before leaving tho, i am of to scotland end april and have been practising the fiddle. The piece i am having a go at take hours and hours to get right, blisters on fingers, arg. Swmbo aghast that i have sanded bits around the fingerboard to reduce injuries.
This wil be mojomo's 6th transat, my fifth. Lots of others here have done loads more transats on (relatively) small boats tho. Barry is on a 47ft cat and has done 8, and Manfred on a swan 63(?) has done 23. The more they've done the quieter they seem to be. By contrast, a couple are planning on doing their first transat rattle away about it nineteen to the dozen. Barry has some med moorings they could have used but they talked over him for an hour so never mind. Worth listening rather than talking i spose.
Before leaving tho, i am of to scotland end april and have been practising the fiddle. The piece i am having a go at take hours and hours to get right, blisters on fingers, arg. Swmbo aghast that i have sanded bits around the fingerboard to reduce injuries.
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Oooer- which bits have you sanded off? What injuries? Splinters from super-fast fingering? My wrist tends to ache after too much fiddling ( [img]/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] ) but I've never thought of taking sandpaper to it..
Anyhoo best of luck with both the fiddling and the crossing
Tell swmbo better a bit of fiddle mutilation than tcm mutilation- way back when I was a very promising young violinist all set for music college, I was having severe problems with pain in my wrist when playing. They decided to chop off the end off my ulna, which had set badly after I broke mr wrist beating someone up (well doing judo really).
No one thought to look at the way my violin was set up; the op didn't solve the problem, I never went to music college and hardly played. Years later I sold my old fiddle and was told that it had an unusually short neck, the action (distance from strings to fingerboard) was far too high and didn't I find it virtually unplayable?...
I bought a cheap but freindly violin and have since made a bit of a living out of teaching- and I always check that my pupils instruments are comfortable. I shall add sandpapering to my repertoire!
I just read your post. I reckon you've gotten quieter too. Nowadays it's just "yeah, ok we're off". I think you must be becoming pure spirit on the breeze.
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