1st May Portsmouth, Dominica

St Pierre I found a very pleasant stop, although our anchor did move in the strong gusts coming down the valley, it was well buried in the sand at about 20 meters.

The Green Flash

We left St Pierre after lunch at 1.30pm on the 28^th April getting the sails up fairly quickly with one reef in the main, giving us between 3-7 knots until we hit the lee of the mountain at the southern end of the island, where the wind died completely for a short time.

The channel between the islands was giving us between 15-27 knots of wind and an east to N.East swell of 1-2m, the wind was stronger on the North side of the channel, so I put another reef in the main and three in the jib, as I wanted to arrive in daylight and doing 5-6 knots meant arriving at about 2am!. Once we were in the lee of Dominica the wind became very variable, even at 2-4 miles off, so I was playing with the jib to try to maintain 3knots, however the wind died at around midnight, so we motor sailed the remainder of the voyage, entering Prince Edward Bay as the sky was lightening, into rain showers, settling down at anchor in about 10m water at 6.45am

Rain coming, Portsmouth from Anchorage

 Yesterday (30^th April) the wind was blowing through the anchorage at force 4-7, with some heavy rain showers, so I stayed on board. This morning I went ashore and did the ‘Indian river boat trip’ into the swamp area, quite interesting but expensive for one, as they charge for the boat!

Main street portsmouth

Anchorage from town

Interesting house?

Indian River