We bought some bikes when we first got to the States in May, they cost about the same as a good lobster feed from, only with an aftertaste of cheapness due to the fact we got them from Walmart. It's all good though because when they aren't being used they live in our shipping container, squeezed in between some sails and boat bits. When we do use them (which has been about 10 times in 5 months, they either live on the dock, or at a bike rack which is more packed than an Indian train carriage.
We decided to take them for a ride a few weeks back, to do the Ocean Drive, this route reminds me a lot of Europe, from the farms of Ireland to the chateaus of the Loire Valley and the coastline of somewhere else which I haven't quite figured.........
Here is a video I made of the Hurricane that paid us a visit last week. We knew this thing was coming, and there were plans to get away from it by going back up north to Maine, however our engine was right in the middle of being serviced (half of it wasn't even on the boat)! By the time it was back together it was too late to leave, so we took our medicine and strapped ourselves in.
Top wind speed that we saw was 79.6 knots, that's a tick under 150km/h for you land lubbers! One of the hardest things to do was actually get onto the boat, usually made easy by a passeralle (a 1m wide x 5m long ramp from the back of the boat to the dock). However Hurricane Mode meant we were off the dock a little more, which meant a metre jump onto a boat leaning over and moving in the wind - doesn't sound that hard, but picture being on a car roof driving at 150 clicks and jumping onto another car that is rocking around like it has oblong wheels and being driven by a drunk. Hence the footage of Valentin on his hands and knees about 2/3 into the vid.
