Hi All out there in Blogland, this is about my sailing trip to Tonga on board the yacht Ianthe. She is a 65 foot (overall) steel motosailor owned by my mate Mark (from Wales) (check out his website http://www.globalquest.org.uk/). Skipper - Mark from Wales, First Engineer Sam from Wales, Bosun me and number one crew John from Hamilton. After a lot of very hard work from Mark, Sam, John and several others we got underway on Saturday 10 April at 0300 hours. What was I doing you ask? I had 3 days to provision the yacht for our trip to Tonga (four guys for about 10 days) then for the eight crew Mark was picking up as part of the Bouty Boat reenactment (10 people for 2 weeks) and then Mark and Sam for the months
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