Marigot's Sailing Trip

Getting Ready to go back Home

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our last supper at the apartment. We rented a car in Ft-Lauderdale and drove to Boston. Muriel and Paulette came to pick us up and we got home on Monday May 1st. We will get the boat ready and enjoy the summer in NB. We will keep you posted on our next adventure.

Cruising Friends on their way home

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Friends that came to visit on their way back north.

Les Beaux-Parents

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Alphee and Bernice and yes the Jungle Queen, Sylvie was doing the speaking tour ha ha

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Hey who is that on the Bike, is the Harley mama!!!!!

Yachmaster Offshore

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On the 3rd of April I started the other part of my Captain's course. The first week of April was all theory. We reviewed the colregs and had a 2 hour test on the rules of the road on Tuesday. On Thursday, we had a 2 hour test on weather and weather patterns and on Saturday morning we had a 4 hour exam on navigation. The second week was all practical. We fine tuned our driving skills on a 50 foot power cruiser. We did man overboard drills, mooring pick ups, one engine turns, one engine dockings and position fixing by compass offshore. The wind was strong all week with 20 to 25Kn gusts to 30. The third week we did our Radar course, Short range radio course and the diesel course. The examiner evaluated us on Tuesday April 18th. We started our evaluation at 1600 and came back in to the marina at 2300. As of Tuesday I now hold a British Masters 200 tons tickets, how cool is that.

Pictures to follow

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Our celebration supper down at Las Olas

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Angela docking the boat

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Bruce our Instructor

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Ben handling the stern lines

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This is Dave

Cruising the Carribean

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We went on a cruise from the 26th of march to the 2nd. It was a wonderful experience. We visited St-maarteen and gotr to spend some time with Marcel, Herb and Tanya. Here is our Boat

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Costa Cruise lines from Italy

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The Galley

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Beautiful ice sculptures, these are part of the midnight buffet, amazing

St-maarteen

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Marcel's boat. What a beauty

Tortola

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Touring Tortola

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Some of the nice sights

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Beautiful

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Hey Radu, our favorite Waiter what a nice guy,

Nassau

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Nassau Bahamas.

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Atlantis in Nassau

Jean-guy, Felice and Nicolas came to visit, cool

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Nicolas et Sylvie

STCW 95

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On the week of the 20 to 24 of march, I took a safety course which is called STCW 95. This course is required to work on all commercial ships. The first two days we did water safety. We spent a full day on emegency equipment and then a full day in the pool swimming with gumby suits, inflating liferafts and learning how to wright them if they would ever flip over. The 3rd day was first aid and the last two days were firefighting. The first day was theory and the last day we dressed up with the firefighting suits and respirators and actually went inside a burning building to put it out and did all kinds of rescue drills. It was a great course and very informative.

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Firefighting Training from the STCW course

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cool training!

St- Pattie's Day

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St Pattie's day at O'Brien's on las Olas Beach, we had a great time, lots of beer and sing along songs. They even played Great Big C songs how cool is that.

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Paco the irishman

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Sylvie ou es tu?

Down the New River

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We rented a small power boat and toke a boat ride on the new river and the intra coastal waterway.

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the oldest building on the new river

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downtown Fort Lauderdale

Key West by day

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The Key west lighthouse

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what a view from up here

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The Hemmingway house

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wow

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His studio

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Downtown Historic Key West

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beautiful houses, Key West became rich because of wrecking! that is almost piracy

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Train tours of the city

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Turn around, go north. This is where Route 1 starts and finishes in St-Stephen NB

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mile 0

The booty calls, Pirates Heavens

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You go in as a landlubber and come out a pirate. the pirate museum arrgg

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We decided to go play pirates

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the sails needed to go up.

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AARRRGGG Billy, have you ever been to sea???

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Here is the admiral

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Walking on sponge cake????

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Key West Night Life, even Elvis hangs out here

Key West

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Key West

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On the way to Key west we stopped at the Coral Castle. It is a very fascinating place. This whole place was constructed by one man by himself in the 1940's.

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Most of these block way tons. He always worked alone during the night on full and new moons.

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He wrote a few pamphlets about electricity and said he used the same technology as the egyptians

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Some of the Theories is electromagnetic levitation. it's worth checking their websites

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it was pretty cool

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all the long bridges that connect the Keys

Lulu's Bar

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Lulu's bar for Reggae music

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the other part of the gang

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Hey that doesn't look like Helene or Alison ha ha

Taking in the sites

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Downtown Las Olas

Les Roberges qui arrivent

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La visite est venue

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Un bon steak avec de bon amis

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notre nouveau ami Paco

Working away on the Snark

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Doing sea trials on the M/Y Snark.

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some people are busier than others ha! ha! Dad!

Mardi Gras in Hollywood

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Mardi Gras Parade

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School Band

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Even Elvis whas there!!

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Drag Queens

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Street Party

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Met up with Ray and Lucille

Bye Bye

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Bye bye Peter and Anne, thanks for the visit

The Magic Kingdom

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Main street USA

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Haunted Mansion

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The Log Ride

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Parade

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It's a small world, we met marc Tabac's aunts in a line up!!!!!

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This is Goofy!

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The Castle

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which one is mine????

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Space man

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The Castle at night

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Night parade

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the Prince and Princess

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Fireworks Show

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Wish upon a star

Universal Studios, Orlando

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Do you think Anne is excited to go to Universal Studios???

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on the bus going to Universal Studios

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heading out

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Do we look like tourists??

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You Bet we look like tourist. Enjoying every minute of it

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Jimmy Buffet's Plane at marguaritaville

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In line at Universal, we are going to the Back to the Futur ride

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JAWS lives here!!

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Marguaritaville at Universal

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Universal at night

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On the way out of the Park there were kids fighting it out at games for Teddy Bears!

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Only one will win and the other will loose!

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But People will do anything to win, Life is not fair!!!

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All for a Teddy Bear, or wait is that a Banana???

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Bully Ha! Ha!