Escaped?
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Chris & Katie Russell
Sat 3 Mar 2018 21:10
14:44.20N 61:10.74W
We arrived in Martinique in early February and never
meant to stay longer than a week or so and in the end it has been a
month
In the end events contrived to keep us here as the
weather stopped us going further north with a novice crew and then issues with
the steering - and a slight argument with a mooring rope kept us in the
marina at Fort de France for a bit longer than planned. Katie and I both went
home (UK) for a very enjoyable week and narrowly missed being
snowed-in in UK to return to the warmth on 1st March
Air France were also part of the - 'lets keep you here'
brigade as they lost our luggage and a very important spare part for
our broken steering was in it! (note to self - always put important things
like that in hand luggage). They phoned us the day after to say that the luggage
had been found - phew......
So we got our act together and this morning checked
out of Martinique to make our way to Dominica. We slipped our lines - carefully
- and made our way out of the marina to sail in a south easterly that then
turned into a very unseasonal south westerly! Equally unseasonal light westerly
winds are forecast for tomorrow before the NE trades come back early next
week
No rain today has been a first for a long time as
well
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