  <h3>Go East.(life is boring there)</h3>
 <p> Its never been a dream for me, to sail a shrimp trawler 
  accross the sea - <a href="song.htm">Ros Woodward</a><br>
  its never been a dream for me to sail BACK accross the sea!</p>
 <p>After the day of recovery from the now infamous Mount 
  Gay Rum Party, we set off for St Martin, to put Rauni on a plane 
  and then head home via the Azores. We emidiatly found our selves a loverly 
  bar, with shower (only the one) internet, and cheap beer, out of date 
  Fosters, drink before Jan 2001. A least during happy hour we could drink 
  the other beers at the same price. There was also very good food at 
  the bar (Lagoonies) provided by an insane frenchman, usually drunk. 
  On 2 occations I tried to explain my favourite European union Joke to 
  him &quot;What's a Frenchmans worst nightmare???&quot; answer &quot;its 
  a place where the English do the cooking and the Germans do the entertainment&quot;. 
  Lagoonies bookswap also had a copy Adolf Hitler My part in his Downfall. 
  The highly inacurate auto biography of Spike Millagan. How we won the 
  war I don't know. All the boat has read it I think I will read it again. 
  I will read it again cos I'm at 37°13.37'N 29°57.44'W or 98.3 nautical 
  miles from Horta, on Faial in the Azores. Nothing iteresting has happend 
  in the last 17.2398578867353 Days. So re reading books no seems interesting. 
  When I say nothing interesting has happend What I mean is. aboout 8 
  really boring ships have been seen its rained 7.5 boring times and one 
  brilliant occation it rained only silghtly borring (and exeptionaly 
  wet, cats and dogs, and not Yorkies and Jelicals either. it rained Siberian 
  Tigers and Timber wolfs - ON ME) We've seen some rubbish floating past 
  (I even hit one bit) it was borring. We've drunk 7 cases of borring 
  beer. Some boring wine... etc. On the other hand we've had no head winds 
  and weve only been beclamed 3 times. And I shouldn't complain it usually 
  rains on Matt! I have been looking forward to my mobile phone working 
  again. So I can ring people up on the way home to UK.<br>
  "RING RING, 'HELLO' 863.2 Nautical miles and I'm comming to get you...."<br>
  "245.3 Nautical miles and I'm comming to get you....."<br>
  "[Deap Breaths] 127Miles........CLICK"<br>
  "10 Miles and I'm getting closser....."<br>
  "......EEERRRRRM I'm aground in brighton marina entrance can you organise 
  me a tow?......"<br>
  The Highest mountain in Portugal is 7713ft high and its on Pico, the 
  Azore next to the one were going to. Buy my marine calcultaions it should 
  be visible from 102Nautical Miles away.<img src="content/pic/trip1/pico.jpg" alt="Pico Looms out of the North West" width="630" height="178"> 
  It isn't but then again it is raining... So much for the wonders of 
  mathematics and marine navigaion better make that 8.5 borring rains. 
  If they put a mobile phone antenna on it I should be able to make threaterning 
  phone calls on it by now. No such luck either that the volcan's erupted 
  again. No boom today, Boom tommorrow always boom tomorrow.</p>
 <H3>EUROPE</h3>
 <p>We arived in Horta at 12:15 0n the 23rd of May 17 days 
  and 21 hours 15minuits and a inderterminate number of seconds. After 
  a game of musical boats at the reception/fuel dock we came along side 
  the marina wall, rafted out next to a great french boat. Also our friends 
  from Roxi (swan 38) showed up <img src="content/pic/trip1/well.jpg" width="253" height="257" align="right">and 
  brought a crate of beer over along with the three french guys off the 
  boat next door, and 2 young doctors who were on a boat called eagle 
  wing. These 2 were very apologetic, at carnival these were the &quot;Experts&quot; 
  I consulted with on VHF about Sam's damaged head. Apparently they felt 
  guilty about not comming over and having a look at him. They'd been 
  out on Jouvert night with the same Band! I felt worried, Rauni was hysterical 
  about Sam, Eagle Wing felt quilty......In fact the only person who was 
  unphased and not the least bit worried was Sam, despite requiring 7 
  stitches.</p>
  <p>
  We intended to go to the hot Rocks (not something sexual) which is a 
  resteraunt, with all of the inproptue party. How ever the improptue 
  party was so successfull that the resteraunt was full and had run out 
  of food by the time we got there.</p>
 <p>We took a tour of Pico the very impressive island accross 
  a narrow channel from Horata, being on a ferry seemed slightly strange, 
  but moring yachts in small fishing harbours open to atlantic swells 
  is not a good idea.</p>
 <p align="center"><img src="content/pic/trip1/no%20admit.gif" alt="The English Sence o humor, i did n't miss it." width="612" height="205"><br>
  I didn't miss the English Humor</p>
 <p>I will finish this page off when it happens. I have some photos suitible for this 
  page. Unforunatly their all in the camera still. I have photos for &quot;Mangrove 
  Swamp &quot; and &quot; Rum Doo &quot; comming 
  as well. I'm rather looking forward to the rum do photos! I will add 
  them In when I get Back home were Internet is cheap and I cand scan 
  for free. I will also clear up the mess this site is in. Sam's laptop 
  is great but it is a 486sx and doing any global change of graphics work 
  is painfully slow.</p>
 
