Here are a few photos from the few days we spent in Bermuda. It was mostly cold and wet, but still a pretty nice place.
The one thing that struck me about Bermuda was the houses, they were a mash up of Caribbean paint themes on top of English designs. That sounds average but it seems to work for them.
P.S. Contrary to popular belief, Bermuda's currency is not the Bermudan Triangle. Rather the Bermudan Dollar, which is 1:1 with the USD.
Ears: Happy Trendy
Hamilton, the capital.
It is hard to explain how many "NO LOITERING" signs there are in Bermuda, almost every building has at least two of them!
The old Play House
Spectrum
The old Church
No matter what, there is always time for ice-cream!
Pretty much the only record of me being in Bermuda.
We made it to the States; Newport, Rhode Island in fact. The place we will be calling home for the better part of the next six months. I don't really have too many photos of the trip - I mainly concentrated on some videoing (I am 99% of the way through the edit, so standby for that ball of excitement soon!).
I don't have too many stories from the trip either, it took us four or so days to go from Antigua to Bermuda, sailing the whole way. The Bermuda stop was a little unplanned, we had to wait for Tropical Cyclone Alberto to pass over, so we went to Bermuda and hung there, in the rain, for three days.
I don't believe in the Bermuda Triangle conspiracies, all the planes and vessels that were lost all seemed to have a legit reason why (storms etc) so the whole alien thing is best left for the Nevada Desert. However we did have a few peculiar things happen to us in the area. Our navigation program went on the blink just as we were entering the bay in Bermuda, a bay that has an entrance of 50 metres, and is surrounded by reefs and waves..... not ideal. Our wind indicator also packed it in whilst there, which is a pretty important piece of equipment to have on a sailing superyacht! There were one or two other things that also happened in or around Bermuda that were strange, but they escape me now.
From there it was another three days north until we hit Rhode Island. We crossed paths with a couple of the Volvo Yachts one night as they were on their way to Lisbon in Portugal, Groupama and Abu Dhabi both averaging over 17knots the whole time they were on our radar!
The weather cleared up and was pretty nice until the final morning, where it was a full pea soup fog, with just 100m visibility and hundreds of fishing pots to slalom through. It was a pretty miserable reunion with Newport for me, however provided some pretty epic scenery as we came through the heads and into the heartland of the America's Cup.
Since we have been here it has been 100% tourist mode, but I will delve further into that on the next instalment.
Ears: Raised Among Wolves
One of the the contenders for the video song, but missed out due to song length.
Kamaxitha leaving Falmouth Harbour a few hours before us.
On the road again.
Cam loving it, it appears?
The best thing about the 2-6am watch.
Cam
Bermuda
Fede as we were leaving Bermuda, Hannah took this photo, I was on the Foredeck doing the anchor when this squall hit - you could say that only having shirt and shorts on was a little underdressed on my behalf.
The entrance to Bermuda, where our Navnet packed it in.
Doing our very own Yacht Tracker of the Volvo Race.
Cevon - coming from Guyana and the Caribbean, this was probably the coldest he has ever been!
Jim on fog watch for the last 30miles of the trip.
We are currently in the transit lounge known as Bermuda, just over halfway between where we left in Antigua and where we are going, Newport, Rhode Island. We have been waiting for the runway to clear for the last few days (Tropical Cyclone Alberta is blocking the way!). But flights seem to be going now, so Zefira Airlines looks like it will be taking off in the coming hours!
See you all in the USA!
On the way to Bermuda, a few days of busting 14.3kn under sail!
I'm a big music fan, always have been, always will! My iTunes has over 40 days of gear on it, and looking at the last few days playing I have gone through some very different bands (Alexisonfire, Modest Mouse, Opiou, Diesel Boy, Elliott Smith, and Mogwai to name a few). I have never really enjoyed just one type of music, it would be unhealthy and I know I would overplay it ruin it for myself if I did. I just enjoy it for what it is, something to enjoy.
I think I share the same sentiments as Ky-Mani Marley.
I went to the Son of God's gig on Tuesday night (yes he is the son of none other than the great Bob Marley), which coincided with the Antigua Sailing Week that is currently running. Halfway through his gig that was full of his own reggae/rock songs and supported by some of his father's classics he introduced his son KJ with the following:
"It's not about Reggae. It's not about Rap. It's not about Rock. It's about the Music!"
With that, the 18 year old entered from stage right and burst into a rap not much unlike Tech N9ne in the mid-90's with support and backing from his dad. Anyway he absolutely blew away every one of the 1000 odd people at the Nelsons Dockyard gig.
Spirited Band supported for a good two hours leading up to Marley's set and they too were awesome, being full of energy most likely fuelled by the endless supply of cheap spirits that seem to find their way into these Sailing Week parties.
It was a pretty epic night to be in Antigua, especially with the realisation that it is the closest many people would come to seeing Bob, especially in the Carribbean.
It's been over 12 months since I last took photos at a gig, so they are a little rough. I took the view of taken photos of what was there, instead of trying to make a photo happen, anyway I hope you enjoy them!
Stay classy.
Ears: Ky-Mani Marley and KJ.
This from the gig, I was around the second row to the left of the stage, if you can spot me?
