Over the weekend of 14th and 15th February we had 9 boats join for the Tapas Tie-up in Sugarloaf bay. The theme was the Iberian Peninsula, so you choose a country on the peninsula and make a dish and a cocktail from your selected country. Dressing both you and your boat for your country is of course mandatory and everyone got into the spirit of it.
The first group of 4 boats used the 11.30am bridge opening to head upstream and the two catamarans, Hawkeye and Flo, picked up two adjacent public moorings and Richard jumped into his dinghy to run a line between their sterns. Hawkeye was in the 12 o’clock position and Flo at 6. Sanctum and Serenite then dropped anchors, on the windward side at say 8 and 10 o’clock positions and backed up to the two cats, sort of a Med mooring but attached to another boat, not a wall.
Kai Rani was next in the 7 o’clock position, then Dream Away and Salty Lady on the leeward side at say 2 and 4 o’clock. Rara joined on windward side and the last was Shibumi next to Flo.
Richard spent more than an hour in his dinghy running lines to and from the sterns of various boats and we would never have got the circle set without him.
Entrees started on Salty Lady and then we moved pretty much in order round the circle. Mains started at Serenite and deserts at Dream Away. As usual we ended on Flo with Espresso Martinis, and Bryan running the Rock Quiz for the crowd.
It was a fantastic night and everyone had a great time as the photos show. Nobody fell in, although a couple got close and everyone made it home safe, so a successful event. Breakfast with everyone facing into the circle was much more social than being in separate groups of three or four yachts.
There was a dinghy painter which somehow got caught around the rudder of Dream Away, so next morning Niclas bravely dived in and untangled it, He didn’t seem to be worried about the recent spate of shark attacks.
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