It’s Friday morning early and today Brenda and I head to Newport, in a car, not by boat, to sail aboard the sailing yacht Marie in the “Newport Bucket Regatta” today, Saturday and Sunday. You may recall the post that I did over a year ago that lead to our visiting Over Yonder Cay in the Bahamas last winter. Ok, ok, you didn’t see that post, or can’t recall any others for that matter.
Well, over a year ago I was reading an article in a magazine that I get here at home and was intrigued by a guy, Ed Bosarge, who was profiled. The article mentioned his island, yes “his” island, in the Bahamas, Over Yonder Cay as well a HUGE sailing yacht Marie.
I had to learn more so I did a bit of research (Yes, that means Google searches) and wrote this post. That was back in June of 2013. It seems that Ed, I hope that I can call him Ed since we are sailing with him, read the post and must have liked what he saw.
Fast forward to February of last winter and I got a comment on this blog from someone writing that they were contacting me on behalf of the owner of Over Yonder Cay and that we were being invited to visit the island and would we be interested. Hmm… Visit a private island that rents for $75,000 a day…. Tough call… Well, OK, we could fit it in, and actually, we were only a few hours sail away.
OF COURSE!. We visited and it was amazing. You can read about our visit to the island in this post. Quite a place.
So, fast forward till a few weeks ago and I get an e-mail from Ed, the owner of Marie, inviting us to sail for three days aboard Marie in Newport. Well, the answer of YES didn’t take long to come out.
The Bucket regattas take place in Newport and also in St Barts and these regattas are for “super yachts”. In this case, “super” has to do with “huge”. I can’t wait to do a post about this little outing and as I woke up early today I just had to take a few minutes to put some thoughts down.
I think that it’s safe to say that the owners of the yachts that will compete have “buckets” that are pretty full. Well, me? I feel like my bucket is pretty full too having been invited aboard the Yacht Marie.
Here’s a slide show of last year’s race and participants.Wish us luck, win, loose or draw, it’s going to be quite a spectacle.