Le Marin, although looking pretty scary on the
charts, to me anyway, has well marked channels and the shoals are easy to see
as long as the sun is shining; and although there are a lot of boats at anchor,
there seems to be a big turnover of boats so spaces open up regularly, I did
use a lot of fuel in the dinghy though.
Got a bit tired of LeMarin so did a coastal jump yesterday.
Leaving just after sun-up and got the sails up in the channel but left the
engine running until clear, just in case. We had a lovely sail up, wing and
wing along the South coast with the wind behind us, then jibing (gently) coming
round on to the West coast, reaching nearly seven knots for a while!
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| Northern Martinique |
Then with
just 5n miles to go the wind veered on to the nose with no warning, inevitably
just as a sail boat was crossing in front, so started the engine and furled the
jib (the wind I think was now being deflected by the mountains, although I was
expecting it to bend the other way and not as dramatically) Anyway we motored
the rest of the way in to Saint Pierre.
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| Snow White on the right |
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| St Pierre |
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| The old and the new |
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| Beachfront sculptures |
The bay is long and open and the only obstacles are
the hard to see pot markers and easy to see buoys marking wrecks for the dive
boats. The main shelf for anchoring is either side of the town pier and is not
very wide, and we did search around for a while before finally going for a
space on the South side.
This morning after a walk up the hill overlooking
the bay, I watched seine fishing right in front of our anchorage.
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| Laying the net |
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| Net laid starting to pull in |
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| Pulling in net with help from primary school |
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| Picking up the fish |
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