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We had much to share with each other, and we enjoyed a lovely snorkel together followed by a beautiful meal onboard their Amelie, they served us swordfish, caught on the South Africa-South America crossing. Amelie brings happiness to others ! This wonderful couple has already taken Amelie (or I should say that Amelie has taken them) around the world once. (They were part of the Oyster Round the World Rally), and they are going again, this time, more slowly. We met up with them later on and learned that like us, they had named their boat after the film (Le Fabuleux Destin D’Amelie Poulin), and like us, they felt it was a great name. As they “dinghied” past us they hailed us: “Hey ! Great name for a boat!”.
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We did have a lovely encounter early last week: While anchored in Marina Cay for the Full Moon Party (see my last blog), we met the Crew from “AMELIE” from the UK (Stephen and Debbie). I personally much prefer that community feel, and the unspoken rule that everyone looks out for one another, and it is all about information sharing too : anything from the best place to find a good service, or boat parts, or places to visit, or places to avoid. I love it ! We have met some incredibly interesting and lovely people while cruising ! The first thing I hear Mark say when he gets back from errands is: “ So I ended up having a chat with.” Telling me about the new people he has met, where they are from, where they are going. Capt’n Mark is especially good at this (that is why he is the designated social butterfly for our boat), having grown up in small town Alberta, he is used to “kicking the tires” with just about anybody, he’s got that knack of starting up conversation with anyone standing right beside him. So, it is not the same community as we’ve seen with full time cruisers who are are generally more neighbourly, where it is very common for people to stop by and chat as they go by in their dinghy, or on the docks. I have to say, i feel much safer when we are around people who have been doing this awhile, and we sleep better too, people who charter boats for a week are generally “here for a good time, not a long time” and so Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday night “booze-fests” with loud music are quite a common occurrence here.
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Every other place we have been, we are usually surrounded by seasoned sailors.
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There is also a rather obvious lack of knowledge about radio etiquette or how to pick up a mooring ball, but hey, we were there once too and not that long ago ! Still under these circumstances it feels very different for us. What I mean is that here in the BVIs we are surrounded by holidayers (who charter boats for a week or two) and some of these might be relatively new to sailing.This was evidenced a few times when we had to change course to get out of the way of people who clearly did not know the rules of the road/ or understand right-of-way). Being back in the Virgin islands has been great,we feel very comfortable here, having visited twice before (in 20) we know these islands well.but it is also very different from what we have become accustomed too over the last few months.
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