Monthly Archives: December 2011

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.

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St Georges Provisioning run was sucessful

We anchored out just south of St. Georges, Grenada and hopped in the dingy and went to the Beach but with the swell rolling in, we would have been soaking wet or the dingy would have been beat against the dock while we walked to the IGA. So that didn’t work out as expected, so we went into St George by dingy. A real nice little town with lots of character for a sea side village. Dropped Wayne and Christine off at a nice dock but basically got almost run over by a local charter outfit coming in to drop off their customers. And since a Cruise ship was in port there were lots of folks around.

I ran the dingy in circles while Christine and Wayne shopped in the smaller store, it had lots of stuff, but not too many fresh veggies. Eventually I got tired and dropped the dingy anchor and motored up to the wall and tied a line to the front and jumped out on a slimy rock, and let the dingy flow back on the anchor, that way it would not crash in to the rocks.

We loaded up on all kinds of stuff, minus the fresh veggies. Couple chicken breasts, some pasta some snacks and of course the required adult beverages. The dingy ride back to the boat was a whole lot slower with all the extra food on board.

Loaded it on the mothership and then decided to head back to the beach and go for a walk leaving the dingy on anchor in the water so we brought the dry bag and a couple cold beers along for the ride incase we found the grocery store.

No sooner than we arrived we were met by “Flash” our tour guide for the beach, he offered to get us buckets of beer and frozen drinks, chairs, etc.. Always the husler, even walked with us to the grocery store where we found some fresh veggies and pork chops at the IGA, basically a store like any back home, which is hard to find here on the islands.

On the way back we found our “Flash” and ordered some beverages from him for all his troubles. Super friendly guy and working the folks off the cruise ship, and us too of course, we over paid for our beers but you have to do that to support the local economy every now and again.

Grilled pork chops and gouda smashed potatoes for dinner and a game of dominos while the sun set and we rocked and rolled in the rolly little anchorage.

St Georges Provisioning run was sucessful

We anchored out just south of St. Georges, Grenada and hopped in the dingy and went to the Beach but with the swell rolling in, we would have been soaking wet or the dingy would have been beat against the dock while we walked to the IGA. So that didn’t work out as expected, so we went into St George by dingy. A real nice little town with lots of character for a sea side village. Dropped Wayne and Christine off at a nice dock but basically got almost run over by a local charter outfit coming in to drop of their customers. And since a Cruise ship was in port there were lots of folks abound.

I ran the dingy in circles while Christine and Wayne shopped in the smaller store, it had lots of stuff, but not too many fresh veggies. Eventually I got tired and dropped the dingy anchor and motored up to the wall and tied a line to the front and jumped out on a slimy rock, and let the dingy flow back on the anchor, that way it would not crash in to the rocks.

We loaded up on all kinds of stuff, minus the fresh veggies. Couple chicken breasts, some pasta some snacks and of course the required adult beverages. The dingy ride back to the boat was a whole lot slower with all the extra food on board.

Loaded it on the mothership and then decided to head back to the beach and go for a walk leaving the dingy on anchor in the water so we brought the dry bag and a couple cold beers along for the ride incase we found the grocery store.

No sooner than we arrived we were met by “Flash” our tour guide for the beach, he offered to get us buckets of beer an frozen drinks, chairs, etc.. Always the husler, even walked with us to the grocery store where we found some fresh veggies and pork chops at the IGA, basically a store like any back home.

On the way back we found our “Flash” and ordered some beverages from him for all his troubles. Super friendly guy and working the folks off the cruise ship, and us too of course, we over paid for our beers but you have to do that to support the local economy every now and again.

Grilled pork chops and gouda smashed potatoes for dinner and a game of dominos while the sun set and we rocked and rolled in the rolly little anchorage.