Circumnavigating on Pampero II

Photos and journal entries from the annals of the Lacey family (Philip, Leonor, Erika, and Damien) of the 1981-1991 sailing circumnavigation upon the old wooden sloop, Pampero II.

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Breakfasting. All food that can last a while, from the "butter concentrate" to the milk powder and the random dark fluid in the tall bottle.  (Worcestershire sauce, for the eggs?)

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Boat repairs while on the go. Observe the folding table being held up with chain: with three trusty beer-holders carved out of the end.

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A couple of monkeys in the rigging; as children, we spent a lot of time up the mast. If feeling adventurous, we'd climb to the second spreader.

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Doing the tourist thing in Egypt: paying for a camel ride.

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Powering along with the diesel: sometimes the wind just doesn't oblige.

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Before the Buddha, only moments before being run off for being sacrilegious.

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Children of circumnavigating yachts Pampero II and Freebooter sailing around in a dinghy, handling a boat more their own size.

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Pampero II's engines died for the day; being towed around the harbour.

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Santa Claus goes visiting the children on yachts, swapping a boxy plywood dinghy for his sleigh.

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Relics of an abandoned mining operation along the shores of the Red Sea.

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The first shark caught, by hand-held line.  Then Leonor, holding the camera, fell into the hatch and fractured her ribs.

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Catch of the day. One of the many flying fish found on deck after a small THUNK in the night.

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Street dominoes: a popular pastime in this Middle Eastern country (which, I no longer recall).

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The Avon rubber dinghy used to leak, and so my brother and I used to use it as a wading pool.  This was likely in crocodile country.  Damien wasn't fond of wearing clothes back then, so I take the liberty of fuzzing things out.

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Making a new friend of the furry kind.

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School work in the galley, via the Brisbane School of Distance Education.

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Leonor hard at work painting the yacht, Pampero II, before the tide comes back in and the yacht is afloat again, ready to set off.