We had a wonderful few days in Bermuda which were spent resting, repairing, relaxing, restocking, sight seeing, socializing and most importantly showering, not necessarily in that order. We met the crews of many of the other boats, joining us on our Atlantic crossing as part of the Arc Europe 2023 Rally, at the various social events organized by the wonderful World Cruising team. The social events included a meet and greet open bar with finger food at the St George's Dinghy and Sports Club, a costume party with a cash bar and tasty buffet for dinner and finally a rum tasting put on by Goslings Rum preceding the sit down awards dinner.
At first of the events, the social meet and greet, the entire crew donned their Sea Dog finery which includes custom embroidered polo shirts and some pretty snazzy shorts (thank to Michele for the idea and execution).
The theme for the costume party was Pirates night out. Michele took it a step further and being that we had four members on board Sea Dog, myself, Michele, Michelle and Keith, she suggested we do Peter Pan. We were a smash hit! I am sure we would have won best costumed boat crew if they had a contest. I will let you figure out who was who...
On Saturday night we were entertained by a traditional Bermudian dance troupe knows as the Gombeys. They are an iconic symbol of Bermuda blending the cultures of Africa, Caribbean and Britain through dance and drumming. After the performance we enjoying a BBQ on the outside deck of the St George's Dinghy and Sports club that offers sweeping views over the harbor.
The final night started with a rum tasting sponsored by Goslings, a 200 year rum dynasty on Bermuda. An interesting side note, they do not actually distill the rum in Bermuda as it is against the law to distill any hard alcohol. They import different rums and do the blending and aging to produce the various runs under the Gosling label. Goslings even makes there own ginger beer for the iconic Dark and Stormy, a Bermuda tradition and one tasty totty!. They do allow brewing, the local Bermuda ale was a big hit and very tasty. They ran out after the first night of events.
The rum tasting was following by a group picture on the lawn in front of the club and then another tasty buffer hosted the club.
Check out my new official Bermuda shorts.
We ended up buying a couple different bottles of the Goslings rum duty free and have them stashed away on Sea Dog to be enjoyed on our arrival in the Azores.
Sea Dog and her crew where actually given a bottle of rum and a six back of ginger beer by Brenda the bartender at the club for being her favorite crew. Lets just stay, it was a Dark and Stormy night aboard Sea Dog prior to departure and that one bottle of rum did not see a new day! Arrrgghh.
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