Grenada - Port Louis marina and St George's
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Mike and Liz Downing
Fri 12 Jun 2009 13:08
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It's about 33 miles from Tyrrel Bay in Carriacou to St
George's, the capital of Grenada. With flatish seas and about 15kts of wind
just ahead of the beam, it was a cracking sail all the way to the
entrance of the harbour. St George's is one of the prettiest of the
harbours in the Caribbean with good looking brick buildings
surrounding the carenage. The olden day ships sailed to Europe fully loaded
with Island goods and when returning empty they carried the
bricks as ballast. Camper and Nicholson are building a new marina complex
in St George's harbour and the first phase, the superyacht
pontoons were opened earlier in the year. With the economic slow down,
not much building seemed to be going on and to encourage boats to stay they were
offering cheap rates. It wasn't really working with only one boat in the marina,
so we decided to be a mini superyacht and they allowed us to moor on one of
the long pontoons.
 Port Louis marina's new swimming pool - not big,
but big enough for us as we had it to ourselves most of the
time.
 A smooth trunkfish visited us most
days swimming between the boat and the pontoon in the
marina.
 This large Dutch yacht moored the other side of
our pontoon - and blocked the wifi signal!
Our American friends on the Catamaran Angel Louise (just
visible in the left of the picture) joined us a week later, followed by the
Dutch superyacht which moored next door! Having planned to stay only a few days
to visit St George's, an engine part broke the day after we got there and we
lost all our coolant in the bilge. It took 10 days for a new part to arrive, but
Port Louis wasn't a bad place to stay, looking towards the town and the
harbour.
 The marina is so new it was virtually
empty.
 Above and below, Port Louis
marina.   The waterfront at St George's is just opposite the
marina.
 Another view of the waterfront in St
George's.
 The waterfront again - local fishermen sell their
very fresh fish from their boat at the
dock.  One of the roads in the middle of St
George's
 St George's commercial dock, opposite the marina
(that's the marina pontoon on the left).  The anchorage outside St George's
harbour.
A short walk from the marina takes you to the main
anchorage at St George's. We anchored here after leaving the marina before
going round to Prickly Bay on the south coast in preparation for the passage to
Trinidad.
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