March 9, 2019
A South Island Cruising Gem: Barry – the manager of the Otago Yacht Club!
We’ve been here 27 days waiting for weather to sail south to Stewart Island and Barry has been incredibly helpful and welcoming. He is truly a terrific human. We’ve never seen him without a smile and he has always gone to extra mile to help us.
When we arrived, the tide was wrong. Barry arranged for us to tie up at a wharf in downtown Dunedin for the night until the high tide the following morning. He was there to meet us when we arrived and came down to Legacy early the next morning to ride to the Otago Yacht Club with us to help get us tied up and situated.
The Otago Yacht Club overall has been a wonderful experience, as has been Dunedin. I guess we should be upset at having to wait a month for weather, but instead, we’re upset to be leaving tomorrow.
Thank you Barry. Thank you Otago Yacht Club. Thank you Dunedin. -Rich
