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Pitons at the Pitons

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Always an enjoyable sail/trip from Rodney Bay to the Pitons. We were able to pull out the jib while we motored (not much wind to truly “sail”), but the seas are blue, the sky is clear, and the turtles are humping! Yes, while swimming, we saw two happy turtles getting it on. After a short trip, less than 4 hours, a missed catch (or involuntary catch and release), we dropped Matt off at Soufferie to clear us out of customs while Wayne and I moved the boat to the bay between the Pitons. We captured a ball with no trouble (and lots to select from compared to last December when they were adding balls to accommodate the crowds). We had hoped to catch the fruit/veggie boat boy and much to our delight he arrived moments after we arrived. We purchased 3 smallish island avocados the size of oranges (normally they are the size of cantaloupes) and a papaya.

Matt returned as Wayne napped and I sunbathed on the bow engrossed in a new novel. Life is so different in the spring (off season) than the winter (in season), as there are moorings available, fewer boat boys, fewer boats, and fewer travelers. So nice! We were actually productive and completed many projects today as well–repaired the port high pressure line that had sprung a leak, completed our boat files, hung some photos, cleaned up our MOB floatation device, added the new MOB light, replaced boat parts that grew legs and walked away while we were gone, and removed some extra snaps from the window coverings. Of course this was in between beers, shandy’s and vodka drinks.

After sunset, Matt made an amazing pork chop dinner, with salad and garlic mashers (see photo below) and the boys kicked my butt in gin rummy! Tomorrow we have a long sail from the Pitons to Admiralty Bay, Bequia which should take anywhere from 8-10 hours. We hope to get up at dawn to get there in time to clear in to the country and have dinner with two of our Austin friends who are renting a house there for the week (Heather Newby and Michael Landry)!! if we miss them, we will catch them at the Tobago Keys!!

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Great sail down island

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From the Pitons in St Lucia to Bequia just south of St Vincent in about 7 hours, we sailed most all the way. Pretty much a nice beam reach between the islands and about 1/2 way down the lee (or backside) of St Vincent before we had to start up the engines to keep us moving. The wind had died down and was right on the nose of the boat, till we cleared the bottom of St Vincent. At the bottom of St Vincent, the weather had decided to turn wet, so took the opportunity to give the boat a quick bath and wash away some of our drink spillage and dirty feet marks that seem to gather dust no matter how many times you wash them.

Since we did run the engines for a bit today, we also took the opportunity to fill our water tanks with some freshly made water, topped off the starboard tank completely and 3/4 on the port tank – so another night with showers.

Rolled in to Admiralty bay with intentions of just clearing customs and getting out of here, as with all plans this was the 14th one of the day, it changed to going ashore to check out the markets/and little boutique shops. I cleared customs, by leeching some internet on the way into the bay, and submitted the form online, to eseaclear.com expecting that it would speed up the process. Not so much, but at least I didn’t have to fill the forms out in triplicate. While I was ashore, Jamie gave Christine a quick lesson in Yoga on the moving bouncing boat, and Wayne kept a diligent eye on them, er the boat since we didn’t set the anchor with the normal scope as we weren’t planning on staying. So before heading ashore, we had to let out more chain and test to make sure the hook was set, and then we all went ashore. Not 2 minutes after we stepped ashore another torrential downpour came down and we were soaked. A quick snack after not having much success in provisioning market, we were a little late, and even missed out on the 1/2 priced appetizers by 2 minutes at Tommy’s – we had nachos anyway.

Back to the boat for some chicken and pasta with veggies and capers for a light dinner. Started raining again and everything outside was wet so had dinner inside tonight. I was having some trouble getting the internet connection to stabilize and was getting some weird failure emails in my inbox, seems the temporary drive on this hosted server ran out of disk space. Logged in remotely from boat, and free up the ‘error’ log that was eating the drive space. Seems something always happens when I’m no where near reliable internet. All is good now and we can again post entrys from the ipad.

Its a very nice and cool night, no rolling in the bay, just a little swinging on anchor, boarder line cold if you are directly in the wind.