The crew of Ad Astra has been working their asses off taking advantage of Sin...

The crew of Ad Astra has been working their asses off taking advantage of Sint Maarten's awesome support for everything marine related.

But yesterday was BBQ party day on the beach off of Grand Case Sint Martin (French side) with Frank Gonsalves and Charlotte Richardson and their wonderful kids: Sophia, Vasco and Che.

Half Australian, half English and very salty, this Frank grew up sailing around the world with his dad, and Charlotte grew up on a farm. Incredibly robust couple - up for any adventure - and Frank has a smile no matter whatever new issue pops up on their boat.

We retired back to Ad Astra and our crew had the great pleasure of introducing them to Cards Against Humanity. Somehow I came from behind, but it was a squeaker, as Max and Che were ahead of me the whole game.

Kaiwen Bethke is off having an adventure on Amsterdam, Iceland, Germany and Belgium and I get to be captain of a bunch of teenagers as Isaac Vazquez and his brother join Abby to make a crew of 5 teens for me to flog until morale improves for the next 3 weeks!

Cheers,

-Erik

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Originally posted on Facebook on June 26, 2017.