Position
14:04.53N 60:57.0W
Back to St
Lucia. Pretty pleased to be away from Fort De France, a reasonable sail to
windward arriving in Rodney Bay. We stopped here, unofficially for one night, on
the way north but this time decided to stick around for a few days. There’s a
marina here so after one night at anchor in the lagoon we moved onto a berth and
enjoyed the sheer luxury of running water and electricity for the first time
since Trinidad, nearly three months ago. Ah, bliss. Actually, despite our
initial impressions that it wasn’t very nice the place grew on us. There’re
hardly any boats around now, most having fled south before the hurricane season
starts (don’t worry, we’re doing the same!) so the marina’s not very busy and as
a consequence it’s cheap. Splendid. We had two nights in the marina, making the
most of draft beer and WiFi as well as the water and power, and as I write this
we’re anchored outside ready for an early start (5.00am) for the trip to Bequia.
The Malarkeys left a couple of days ago, turning their noses up at water and
electricity, but I suppose you can when you’ve got an inboard generator and a
watermaker…they should be in Bequia by now.
We’ve been
struggling a bit with the sailing of late, because as it gets later in the
season the wind tends to blow more from the southeast rather than the east /
northeast you get in the earlier months, and since we’re heading south it means
we’re bashing into it more than we’d like. From here on in, though, the island
chain tends to curve towards the west so we should have a better angle on the
wind. Ah, theory’s a wonderful thing, I wonder if it
works...!
