Carriacou Regatta

The regatta week starts for us with the Carriacou Children's Fund annual Auction. A lot of cruisers donate items as well as locals and businesses to support keeping children in schools by supplying meals, tuition fees or uniforms. We also volunteer at the auction to sell items from the tables, its a few days work in set-up, selling and tear down, but all in a great cause.

After the hard work, it's time to play. Our good friends Russ and Lisa have entered Uproar for another regatta and as a past crew member I was honored to be invited again to crew on Uproar. Well the Carriacou regatta is not as competitive as Antigua but just as hard fought by those that attend. We had great starts as usual and Russ took the lead in every race again! We had a really tight finish with the first race a a much larger ketch caught us near the line, they don't point as high as Uproar and Russ steered a beautiful battle to the line get us over the line first even though they owed us time on handicap. These were truly wonderful races and a lot of fun.

Of course the steering should work before a race!

A lot of looking back

A relaxed helms woman and her dog

Rail Meat

Champagne to celebrate

A winning Crew

A very happy post race party

Uproar, Russ and Lisa first in every race.

Carriacou

We love Carriacou and you could almost say it is our summer home. We have a lot of regularly scheduled events like: Noodling, Children's Swimming Lessons, Dominoes, Mrs Lucky's Saturday BBQ and many diving opportunities. It seems to feel very friendly in Carriacou so we enjoy running the VHF net as well to let visitors know all about activities in the bay.

Noodling classes run by us in the bay

Warrior, on of a few boat boy's offering services in the bay

We have several walks normally and know a lot of great trails on the island. One of our first was with Bruce, Anna and David. We walked the valley behind Tyrell bay and were invited to a local lady's house to enjoy the views. She wanted some good quality photos of the view to help sell the vacant building lots they have and Bruce gladly obliged.

Kiss a frog anyone?

He was pretty big and one of many.

Anna, David, Liz and Devin

Great views from a local garden

Island Rocks thanks to Lori

Our walking group

We had a few more walks in August with fellow cruisers but somehow it seems this year less walkers are in the bay and we have not gone out quiet as much.

Well the races and the Carriacou Children's fund auction are coming up so time is getting busy.