Slightly less rolling, Christine woke me up to see a catamaran whose anchor didn’t hold. Seems they had in impromptu raft up with a 100 foot yacht whose anchor was holding and had been here the whole time we have.
This charter will have some explaining todo when they get to port, it also appears to be missing a dingy.
This is what they rafted up against.
As soon as the first boat left this morning, the catamaran came in an grabbed a the newly vacated ball. Course the balls have no painters, so their method of picking it up involved someone jumping over the bow and threading the lines while in the water. You could see the early morning grogginess on the attempts and you know there are barnacles growing on the lines on these mooring balls. Needless to say, as soon as they were on all situated and a quick attempt and bending the stanchions back, they quickly retied back to the sleeping that they were awakened from.
Today’s plan is a sail up to young island, a little cut near blue lagoon on St Vincent. There is a beachbar there that we haven’t been too. Heard its nice but expensive. Figure its a great place to stage for the new years eve, and the early new years departure for newly seasoned sailors. So far everyone appears to be hangling the motion of the ocean with ease. Today we’ll have about a 20 mile sail, early this morning the winds look light but we are hidden behind the island and most of this sail will be exposed on the Atlantic side of Bequia.
No sightings of the Rich and Famous, and the real story seems to be they are just trying to keep the island exclusive, at least during the high times, christmas, new years, and easter. I guess if you have that kinda cash to spend on an second or third home down here, you deserve something for your money even if you are not here. One of the islands hill top homes, looks like it belongs in greece or italy and it totally out of place, the owners are from Gemany and only visit like once every 3 years or something. Most of the other places fit into the landscape naturally. Maybe next time we’ll brush elbows with the upper crust, but if not this is still a lovely place to visit.