It’s been a while since we sailed last and we just can’t wait to get started again! But as the song goes ‘you can’t hurry love’. Setting up a sailboat is truly a labour of love; and patience and fortitude and passion!
In short, Antara is finally ready to sail and we spent all of last week working hard to get her ready. Here’s how the week whizzed by:
Placing the mast on deck since it’s too tall for the bridges across the Mandovi River
A final scrub for the homecoming (PC@Anshuman Chatterjee)
Loaded up with mast and boom, motoring down the Mandovi
Skipper at the Captain of Ports jetty
A working lunch on board
Surveying the seascape before she ventures forth!
The sails (main and genoa) go on this weekend, then a test sail or two, before we leave for our first blue ocean sail for this season.
You may have missed a seat on this trip but there are more planned in November! Write to us on sailonantara@gmail.com today
Our next Blue Ocean sail dates are:
Goa to Bombay - Nov 20 to 23
Bombay to Goa - Nov 29 to Dec 01
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