An Embarrassment Of Mangoes (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
. . FROM THE SONG “THREE DAYS OUT FORTY-FIVE KNOT WINDBLUES” BY CANADIAN SINGER/SONGWRITER AND CRUISER EILEEN QUINN, FROM HER CD NO SIGNIFICANT FEATURESOh, the irony. We left home to escape deadlines and here we are being driven by a deadline: I’m convinced we absolutely have to be south of the hurricane box by July 1, as if the weather gods use a Day-Timer and have scheduled a hurricane for the very next day.After the Mona Passage, we scurry along the south coast of Puerto Rico. “Take at least 11 days,” the gospel guidebook says; but the weather holds and we cover it in four. Then we boogie through the Virgin Islands—“don’t worry, we’ll spend more time here on our way north,” Steve says—then jump to St. Martin across the Anegada Passage, another choppy, current-wracked stretch of water, unaffectionately nicknamed the Oh-My-God-A Passage. Anchor, sleep, sail. Anchor, sail. Sail, sail, sail. We move every day—and sometimes night—the weather lets us, mostly motorsailing now because we’re heading east and almost directly into the trade winds.
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