End of April...Leaving Georgetown

Today I am doing laundry on the boat so it's my fault rain is popping up unannounced and unforecasted today. Quentin has gone fishing with Amazing Grace and Nauticuss. They are 5 miles south and the rain is 5 miles south of them, so it will be here soon.
Tomorrow he has to be on shore at 8 am so he can compete in the dinghy races in the Family Island Regatta races. He's pretty excited about that...if you can actually tell when a 15-yr-old is excited. I told you that Tuesday Ross [Nauticuss] came by and yelled, "Who wants to go fishing?" Quentin was up and ready to go before Ross got stopped, so he went by himself with Nauticuss and the crew from Amazing Grace. I had to finish a sign and Rick didn't want to go fishing.

Four hours later they were back. Quentin had a 5.5 lb mahi-mahi and Jim caught one too. Ross lost his, but those two mahi-mahi fed 11 people last night!!

The best part was that Ross made Quentin fillet the fish as well. Ross showed him how to clean it without having to gut it first, and he made Quentin do both of the fish!
Quentin's rod fell apart [sorry, Jack, it just couldn't handle the fight] so Ross gave him a new fishing rod that he can use while we travel home. So Quentin can keep us in fish while we sail.

This morning, Quentin went over to the town side so he could try to get into one of the sailing dinghies, but ended up on the crash boat. The local sailing club didn't have room for him on the Class B boat, but they gave him at-shirt anyway, and told him to find another boat to crew on. He went looking for another boat, and ended up on "Lady Natalie", a boat from the Acklins Islands.

AND THEY TOOK 3RD PLACE IN THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S CUP!!!
So he will actually get something for being on that boat!!! They told him to show up again tomorrow and he can race with them again!!
He's pretty happy about that. So, Granddad if you are looking for racing crew this summer...

So Regatta is over and its time to move on. we are all trying to yank up our chains and head out. We need to get to Immigration and get an extension tomorrow and hope we get enough time to get through the islands. Quentin wants to go through the Abacos so we will once again go up he island chains and over.

He didn't get to go up and get the trophy with his racing team. Apparently the "owner" of the boat gets the recognition, not the guys who actually sailed it to second place! But he has lots of memories and the captain told him he could sail with them whenever he is in the Islands and they are sailing!

SO it's time to get the servicing done so we can head out. It will be a tough 2 days saying goodbye again to our boating family.

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