At the airport. Sad, but coming home. Hopefully we turned off everything, closed all the hatches. The marina will haul out the boat on Monday. We won’t be back for a few months.

Was quite the adventure now the adventure in air travel continues. See you all on Monday.

Up at dawn, watched the sunrise over the St. Lucia for the first time on an Anchor. The amount of boats in the bay was 10x that had anchor lights on last night when we chose our anchor spot. Probably a hundred or so boats anchored out side of Rodney Bay, right in front of a Sandals resort.

Fired up the engines and rolled toward the marina, tried to hail the marina on the VHF but no luck, till we almost got all the way in. They put us next to a 70 foot ketch, with a slight cross wind, but we stuck the landing and with help from the dock hands tied up with out a scratch or loud words.

Clearing customs only took 1.5 hours, and boy that building must be built out of noodles cause it sure was moving all over the place, had to lean up against the wall to stand still. The sea legs kept wanting to twitch and catch my balance. Of course a trip to the market after customs is my MO to get a beer, sure it was 9am, but was necessary after that.

Next task was to organize the air fare and make sure eveyone could get out on time, and Christine worked her magic and found a flight out that afternoon for Marvin so that he could be home for is birthday on Friday.

The rest of the day was spent lounging and drinking in the sun and talking to other boaters and absolutely no talking about our trip. Lots of beers and drinks, with a cheeseburger in paradise at the local cafe.

We don’t have the correct plugs to plug in the electricity so that might be on the agenda today to get an adapter or shore cable for the USA type plugs everything we have is for 220/50 hz.

We are safely near land, Ron leaves on Friday, we are currently scheduled to leave on Monday. Since we were late getting here, the haul out date was missed and now they can’t get us out till some later date. So that might put a wrench in the plans.

Its beautiful here!

Holy Survivor Batman, we are almost there and the tribe has spoken there will be no immunity granted.

Another lovely trade wind sailing day, with the big spinnaker flying in just heading in the right direction.

Getting closer to the end, the breakfast tacos this morning included everything you could imagine, including fresh green beans!

Some sad news from the crew of a family tragedy and we are a still a long way from anywhere, just have to keep on keeping on.

Fired up the Honda and made some electricity, chilled out and expected to see other sail boats today. Only one showed up on the horizon, but way behind us, under working sails and with our spinnaker they again disappeared over the horizon.

As we were having taco salad with grilled chicken or beef, your choice the sun set over the horizon on the other side of St Lucia and we had our first view of LAND in 20 something days. The silhouette of the gran peton mountains were a sight to be seen at 40+ miles away. The crew erupted in cheer, song and dance. We’ll okay, just the cheer.

We are currently ghosting in between a carnival cruise ship, a ferry to St Martin, an Oil Tanker to somewhere and several other presumed sailboats ahead of us that barely show up on radar, but AIS shows them all within about 8 miles of us.

Exciting stuff to say the least, we’ll go a round the tip of St Lucia and probably drop anchor for the night and wait till morning to get into the marina and declare victory. Tho as soon as the anchor goes down and hooks, its Rum and Diet time! As its still a partial victory. Then to clear customs and see what we can see in Rodney Bay, St Lucia.

AIS shows us following Vulcan Spirit in, its 7.3 miles ahead of us.

Bacon, we still have more bacon to cook, everyone loves bacon, so come get some bacon!

Tomorrow we celebrate!

Course over ground: 264 Speed over ground: 5.2kn Total miles through water: 944 Miles to destination: 16 kn (as a crow).