Overcast but great sail to St Vincent

Despite the lack of sleep, everyone was up pretty early. And we were underway before breakfast, raised the sail and headed out in the dark and gloomy weather. Nice 10knots of wind in the lee of St . Lucia, so a little motor sailing and charging the batteries.

Typical Texas Breakfast tacos with some bacon and fixens were created while sailing in the lee, shortly after clearing St Lucia we had some 15kn of wind, so we killed the engines and sailed by the wind alone, making 9kn through the water passing many monohull sail boat along the way.

We dropped the lures in the water before breakfast, and no bites till zing. Another doozie hit and took alot of line and jumping out of the water. Slowed the boat down by turning into the wind and 45 mins of fighting later the jumping fish finally figured out how to spit out the lure! Doh! At least this time the knot held and we still had the lure, unlike our rookie mistake on the cousin of jaws from yesterday!

Making great time, we are thinking about going ashore in Bequia instead of St Vincent to clear customs to get another island for Shawn and Sharon on this trip. That and its till overcast so visiting the Walibou, where they shot pirates of the carribean wouldn’t be too exciting and the customs at Walibou are only open between 4-6pm.

Still heading south bound and down.

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