Category Archives: Caribbean

Islands of the Caribbean including both windward and leeward islands

Liming the day away

Liming is “hanging out” in the local vernacular and that’s what we are doing. Ashore in hillsbourgh at a sea side cafe listening to the wave an enjoying the post clearance beverage. Just contemplating the meaning of life on island.

Got the watermaker working. Was a bit of a chore to get the pumps primed and find a leak that wasn’t letting the suction work. One of the high pressure pumps isn’t coming on so we’ll be making water slowly. We also found a leak in the port water supply that we’ll tackle a little later. That’s where all our fresh water from the port tank drained into the bilge.

We just chowed down on some jerk chicken and macaroni pie. Perfect light snack for lunch while liming the day away.

Wake up here

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This where we spent the night. Doesn’t suck.

Little windy on the video but that’s to be expected on a sailboat.

Current plans are to take the mothership over closer to the mainland and drop the hook and clear out of Grenada so that within the next 24 hours well be in St Vincent and the Grenadines.

We are running low on fresh water so one of today’s tasks is to fire up the water maker and make some more freshly fresh for showers and cooking.

Hope y’all are having a great Tuesday.

Long day into the wind

The wind and waves were on the nose again for the trip up to Carriacou. If you check our track it almost looks like we were sailing. Well we were but with only the main sale and the engines running. 25 knots of wind and some pretty big waves we covered the boat in salt. Our 30 mile day clocked in at over 50 over water and took us about 7 hours.

Played with the SSB radio on the way yesterday. Was able to update the firmware and get the laptop talking to it. Configured it to use my new Ham license and was able to connect to a station in Florida. I wasn’t able to get the email to send for some reason. So while y’all were busy attending to computer issues on Monday so was I. Except I was bouncing along the islands annoying a cold Stag beer.

This anchorage had 2 other boats in it. So basically we are all alone here. Hidden behind a small spit of land and 1/2 mile from shore and am still able to pick up wifi.

We drug the fishing lines all day with out a bite. The lures did get hit when we came across from Trinidad as evidenced in the large gashes in the lure and teeth marks on the cedar plug but didn’t see any new ones when we pulled them in this time.

Christine motored right up to the ball in 20 knots of wind and we were on the ball in no time flat.

Coasted into the anchorage at Salt island.