Nous sommes le 29 octobre. Toujours en préparation du départ, nous avons passé trois jours à la marina de Clarkes Court Bay pour faire l’entretien du dessalinisateur. Ça tombait bien puisqu’il y avait des vents de plus de 20n et j’en ai profité pour terminer le pare-soleil avant. Il reste l’antenne VHF. JP en a conclu que l’on doit changer le câble entre la radio et l’antenne pour un plus gros. Pour ce faire, JP doit remonter au mât et nous décidons donc d’explorer une dernière baie plus à l’Est : Calivigny Harbor. Pour y aller, la mer est légèr [View Full Entry]

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What a relief… to be south of the hurricane belt and back in the Grenadines, some of the most beautiful islands in the world. We love the Grenadines and have spent a lot of time here. But surprisingly, have not seen it all. So once we rested up for a couple of days and recovered from our sail down it was time to kick back, relax, and explore. We spent a couple of weeks touring the Grenadines. Of course we had to stop at some of our favorite anchorages, including Bequia and Union Island and the Tobago Cays and Mopion and [View Full Entry]

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Bequia, Grenadines, le 25 mai 2009 Saint-Vincent et les Grenadines est le 15e pays où nous devons compléter des formalités douanières. Cela est parfois facile, parfois difficile, simple, compliqué et il faut le faire en général en entrant et sortant d’un pays. Mais retournons au 1er avril à Puerto Rico. Nous devions faire changer une valve défectueuse du réservoir sceptique. Nous prenons un quai à la plus grande marina des Caraïbes, Puerto Del Rey. 1000 places et un service de transport en voiturette électrique sur les quais tellement c’est grand. La seule valve disponib [View Full Entry]

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On april 4 we have a great snorkel in Dragon Bay then headed to Gouyave Bay with Shauna at the helm. Went to the street party where there were many street vendors selling a variety of fish and other traditional meals, The family from the other boat joined us and jesse and chris 12 yrs) got along great. 9:30 the next morning we headed out thru some squalls to sandy island off Carriacou our top speed was 9.9 knots, the average 7.8. At 10:30 Harald spotted whales. He wanted to call out" Killer Whales" but thought it impossible for them to [View Full Entry]

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Bequia to Carricou More diving, a beach barbecue, swimming. Bequia was as ever great fun. Then on to Carricou. Carricou is an island about 30 miles north of Grenada, we visited there two years ago, it was very tranquil and sweet. Nothing much seems to happen there. It is a very green lush little place, with little volcanic peaks, a small capital town of Hillsborough, and some very photogenic houses. We had a great sail down there, the wind on the beam, perfect sailing. We anchored in Tyrell bay, a big wide anchorage, safe and clean, fringed by mangrove swamps. [View Full Entry]

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BEQUIA Still here, the wind has been howling and making the boat heel over. We decided to move further into the bay, which I think was a good decision, it has been more comfortable here. The wind has been gusting a lot at night, gusts of 30 knots and it has woken us up. During the day we have been off the boat. We caught the bus to Friendship bay. We had asked if there were any buses, and as usual they were not exactly crystal clear with the answer. 'yeah there a bus' 'when does it go?' 'no schedule' 'Ok [View Full Entry]

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(h2) BEQUIA(/h2) This has been a really fun time here. We have enjoyed fairly calm seas, one night of wind, but otherwise still, lovely gentle breeze. Great barbeque on the beach, can we really drink that much rum? And then the jazz festival has been entertaining as well, it was great to sit on the beach listen and watch live music. So what have we been doing. Well firstly we walked to the other side of the island, about 3 miles to go to the turtle sanctuary. It was interesting but the owner was not too thrilled when Alan asked if [View Full Entry]

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After a night in a very gloomy dank and wet Marigot bay, we were up quite early to sail across to St Vincent. As we motored up the side of St Lucia the clouds seem to hover amongst the green verdant forested hills. Inside the boat everything had felt damp that morning, even the pages of the log book were limp and soggy. As we cleared the island the whole atmosphere inside the boat changed, just as if you had turned on an airconditioner, everything dried up, the sun came out, and St Lucia was a smudgy darkness behind us. We [View Full Entry]

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One of the many questions amongst sailors in the last couple of months was, “Where are you going to spend Christmas this year?” There are a couple of islands that are popular during the holiday season like Antigua, Bequia, and St. Lucia. These islands celebrate Christmas with real gusto! There are tons of Christmas lights and live music and parties filled with holiday cheer. But there was no question of where the Rum Runners wanted to spend Christmas- in Bequia of course! Bequia, Sweet Sweet Bequia. It is our favorite island in the Caribbean, the people are so friendly and th [View Full Entry]

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We continued on our little jaunt around the Southern Grenadines and sailed back up to Chatham Bay, a quiet anchorage on the west end of Union Island. It was a glorious trip- a stiff Caribbean breeze filled our sails and pushed the Rum Runner swiftly along the lush coast of Union. The west coast of Union is totally undeveloped, except for a couple of beach bars that the locals open on the weekend. And the anchorage is beautiful, surrounded by tall cliffs filled with cactus and dense scrub. The first thing we wanted to do was launch the kayaks and explore [View Full Entry]

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