We popped to the chandlers on a wild goose chase – yesterday another cruiser told us waterproof bags were half price at Budget Marine – and on the way back called in to see Mike and Karen on Chapter 2, a UK registered Island Packet. We first Karen and Mike in S Martin in March and have seen them on and off over the last few months, yet have never been on board Chapter 2. Today we called by and they invited aboard. As I was about to step up I noticed Chapter 2 has Warwick as her home port. In boat registry you can name any village, town or city as your home port. It doesn't even have to be a port.
My original home town is Kenilworth and it's Mike's home town too. The chances of meeting someone who comes from the same town, is doing the same thing the same thing you are and to meet thousands of miles from said home must be many thousands to one. The coincidence stops there as the only friends we have in common are the ones we've met through our sailing. It's a small world. David was talking to the lady who ran the grocery in Puerto La Cruz Marina, Venezuela and discovered her home village is Rawtenstall, just 5 miles from his old house in Bacup, Lancs. It really is a small world.
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