We have arrived
Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Wed 7 Dec 2011 16:22
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14:04.448N 60:56.976W 2911 miles
covered
Actually we arrived yesterday at 13:28:30 St Lucia
time, but with immigration, ARC check-in, greeting other boats, drinks
with our radio net controller Nigel onboard Eleanda and then dinner at Starfish
restaurant, I didn't get round to writing anything before we all crashed out for
12 hours. Anyway, you probably worked out from the ARC website that we had
arrived.
In the end we gave up on sailing all the way and
did the final 25 miles on the engine. We made the decision because we
were doing 0.8 knots (basically the speed of the current flowing towards St
Lucia) and it would have taken more than 24 hours to get here. Nobody
wanted to do another night of just drifting along watching the lights on the
island and all the other boats motoring past us. We had managed to get
within mobile phone range of St Lucia, so we reckon it still counts as
sailing the whole way without using the engine.
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