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My co-skipper/ navigator gets hold of me this morning. He says that there has been a 30% increase in the price of beer on St Helena since September last year. That's when he last visited the Island. Twice within one year. He's like a celebrity there he tells me.


Anyway, I cannot figure out why, if he is so famous, does he worry about the price of beer out there. Surely people are climbing over one another to buy him a dop.


Seems like he isn't THAT famous!


So, back to the price of beer on the Island.


He asks me how much beer can we get into the two floats of our trimaran. He's talking case loads. He reckons we can double our money by shipping some Castles over. Kinda like recover the costs of the Race. Now you have read about that Money Tree that is bearing no fruit. So I perk up a bit.


I say,"skip the case loads. Let's go big, lets do bulk. Lets just flood the two floats with beer and when we get there we rig up a hosepipe and trade on tap, so to speak".


Tanya says, "with all that beer on board you guys will be so wrecked you wouldn't care what the price of beer on the Island will be".

I say, "with all that beer on board, who says we will even find the Island".


The navigator peps up from out of his locker, "I've always wanted to go to Brazil!"

I say, "In Brazil beer is cheap, we won't need to take our own".


The discussions drift over towards hot chicks on Brazilian beaches and finding Grahams abandoned boat and whatever.



Life goes round in circles.