From Matt Gilbert
As some of you may know, I find the close season period between January and March a little long to be without a bit of sailing. As a consequence I have agreed, reluctantly, to help a friend sail his new boat to Antigua over the next few weeks.
“Oofle Dust” is a new Oyster 86, clearly, this is not quite the kind of boat I have become accustomed to but ‘beggars can’t be choosers’ as they say. The above is a picture of Oofle Dust taken yesterday in Southampton when I was forced to attend a champagne farewell party before the boat departed today for the Canaries where I shall join them in a week’s time for the crossing to Antigua (when I was asked if I would also like to do the first leg, I somehow found a prior engagement which outweighed the ‘lure’ of a watch at 2 am crossing Biscay in January!)
I shall endeavour to send regular updates, but hopefully, if any of you are interested, progress can also be monitored on www.oofledust.com which should go live in the next few days.
Matt
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