Hey, here is an event worth noting
We moved, from Rodney Bay, St Lucia to Marin, Martinique (26 miles)
WOW!
Tomorrow perhaps up to le Saints.
Need to first get some wine and cheese here. Stock is dangerously low.
Weather is fantastic. Sea is like pond, wind is 12 kts ESE. Boat sails like a rocket......... well, ok, not quite.....
Have a great day
Rob
Saturday, 28 March 2015
Snail is moving
Monday, 2 March 2015
Sunday, 1 March 2015
Bequia
Hi,
Having left Grenada, where we had a great couple of weeks, and James had his birthday :) we sailed up to Carriacou,(2nights), then Union Island, which is our best for kite boarding. Alex has it, but James and I, well lets just say "not so good"
We anchor just behind Frigate Island, a small peninsula on the south side of Union which provides great protection, and creates lagoon like conditions. Here you can spend weeks, if you had provision enough, as there are no shops, but if you are prepared for a long dingy ride to Clifton, the main town, there is an assortment of shops with "tourist" prices.
Unfortunately (as we were having fun), we had to leave a bit prematurely. The weather was turning nasty. We managed a mid afternoon departure, a 6 hour (very wet and lumpy) beat up to Bequia, where we arrived at 21:00.
So right now we are anchored in Bequia, Port Elizabeth which is reasonable calm and there is plenty to do.
The weather looks like it will only let up in a week, so till then we do school, boat improvements, and maybe some diving.
Projects in hand include: Raise the cockpit floor, build shelves in the TV cupboard (yes we have TV), fix the bloody grey water pump again, fix the leaky garden tap on the stern which is making big ugly rust stains down the transom, and of course chip and paint some other rusty spots.
Or we could do all that stuff tomorrow, or the next day, as we have a fridge that works, and it has many beers which are not drinking themselves ;)
Present anchor position 13 00,00 N 61 14,86 W
Rob
Having left Grenada, where we had a great couple of weeks, and James had his birthday :) we sailed up to Carriacou,(2nights), then Union Island, which is our best for kite boarding. Alex has it, but James and I, well lets just say "not so good"
We anchor just behind Frigate Island, a small peninsula on the south side of Union which provides great protection, and creates lagoon like conditions. Here you can spend weeks, if you had provision enough, as there are no shops, but if you are prepared for a long dingy ride to Clifton, the main town, there is an assortment of shops with "tourist" prices.
Unfortunately (as we were having fun), we had to leave a bit prematurely. The weather was turning nasty. We managed a mid afternoon departure, a 6 hour (very wet and lumpy) beat up to Bequia, where we arrived at 21:00.
So right now we are anchored in Bequia, Port Elizabeth which is reasonable calm and there is plenty to do.
The weather looks like it will only let up in a week, so till then we do school, boat improvements, and maybe some diving.
Projects in hand include: Raise the cockpit floor, build shelves in the TV cupboard (yes we have TV), fix the bloody grey water pump again, fix the leaky garden tap on the stern which is making big ugly rust stains down the transom, and of course chip and paint some other rusty spots.
Or we could do all that stuff tomorrow, or the next day, as we have a fridge that works, and it has many beers which are not drinking themselves ;)
Present anchor position 13 00,00 N 61 14,86 W
Rob
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