Here are some picks taken snorkelling at Bequia
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| not my shorts! |
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| Conger poaing |
We have now made the jump to Martinique, after
deciding that St Vincent probably was not a good place for a singlehander to
stop, it does not have a very good reputation for unannounced boardings, and St
Lucia just didn’t have enough of interest to warrent the cost of a stopover.
This time I thought we would try going to the East to get clear wind, however
as with all plans it didn’t work out like that, for one thing the wind was not
very strong at 2-4 so we motorsailed for all but about ½ hour of sailing.
The passage took about 27 hours ( I had estimated 20
to 30) after leaving Admiralty Bay at 6am; as the sun set we were nearing St
Lucia with a dark night ahead with plenty of stars and cloud on all horizons,
the sickle moon rose about 4am when a cargo boat decided to aim straight for us
entering the channel between St Lucia and Martinique, since we were on courses
at right angles to each other and he was doing 12 ½ knots to our 3-4 knots all
I could do was wait and see, he finally decided to pass aft of us at about
1n.mile so all was well, curiously enough the AIS although telling me his ship
type, speed, rate of turn etc. gave his name as ‘unknown’.
Marin, sorry Le Marin (as the customs man reminded
me) is a col-de-sac with lots of little hideaways to moor in, I elected to go
right in to its’ Northern (innermost) end and found a slot big enough without
faffing about too much in about 5m of water. Ominously enough there is a boat
stuck on a reef about 100 yards away.
Today is the 19th, I have been unable to
find a wi-fi that covers the anchorage so have to come ashore to surf, today it
has been raining heavily so after doing some inside maintenance I had a shower
outside.
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