Antigua - our next home

In business for a year now, and SeaSystems.biz moves its base for the next six months to ...

... Falmouth, Antigua (view from Shirley Heights)

This is our little place – Tony’s Cottage

We can see the comings and goings every day from our deck of potential customers for my little business here. THAT’s a bit big!!

B wasted no time joining Antigua Yacht Club – the smallest mast next to the largest mast of Mirabella V

Meet Vince – our friendly skipper from Suffolk of ‘Seal’ for the Jolly Harbour weekend regatta

On the way to the regatta Vince stopped to collect this small collection of girls with their large collection of vessels of drinking water ...

... Vince thinks the village we delivered them to had its standpipe shut off to force the inhabitants to connect to main water (to be billed).

The girls and their family live in Old Road in the only remaining jungle on the Island.

Total contrast, back to our western leisure pursuits – which means fixing electronics for me (well, lashing it up for 2 days).

All happy on board before the first race – Terry is from Devon (right character!)

How perfect is that (committee boat)?!

Slowly B is coming round to liking Antigua ... a bit!

Showers kept moving through for dramatic skies during 7 races over 2 days.

Those huts will cost you >$1000 per night ... more contrast!

Discussing the collision on the last race start line (our fault!)

We still won our class out of 7 boats; Vince receives a plaque from the Minister of Sport. Vince had never won before so he could not stop smiling!

Special prizes for the young sailors on board for the regatta – great encouragement!

Maltese Falcon arrives in Falmouth while we race round the corner (sorry – I took this in Palma!).

The showers keep up today; no two days alike. Pigeon beach there is where we swim morning and evening... visitors welcome!