To Stacia
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Fri 25 Feb 2011 22:18
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En Route to
Stacia
 We left Basseterre (marina, right of centre) on a beautiful sunny
morning at eleven o'clock. Rather like deciding to come in to shelter, you have
to decide whether to leave and risk a bit of a bumpy ride (knowing you can
probably turn back), stay for ages and ruin the time schedule you have planned
or move into a house for good. We knew we could be in for a brisk ride but you
can never gauge just how much swell there will be as conditions change. We
checked with Wind Guru, expected winds of around twenty six knots with waves
around four to six feet, nothing we haven't encountered inside Plymouth
Breakwater, so off we went.
 It was lovely
sailing down the coast of St Kitts seeing the places we had seen whilst
out and about with Everton
   Brimstone Fort off in the distance
  The ruins of sugar
production
 A small boat
yard
  Brimstone
Fort
  No sooner than we had passed the fort
into open sea when things got 'lively'. Couldn't hold the
camera still but we shook hands at our first Force Nine, boat speed
averaged around 8.1 but once or twice at 8.8
 This is a
white-knuckle on the Rita scale - top number - fifteen out of ten.
Nothing the girl couldn't take in her stride. Me - perhaps a small nip or
two.
  Half way,
so pleased this is a day sail and no more (don't worry the depth gauge shuts off
over 115 metres so we are not really in 2.3)
 St Eustice or
Statia, I had to straighten this picture, it looked silly at the angle at
which I had to take it
  Close in to shore we had double waves hitting the side of the girl, we got a little
moist
 The friendly sea may have
been heavy duty but the colour was stunning. Would NOT have liked to have been in
savage or even unfriendly seas.
  Right up to anchoring the wind was
still thirty eight knots and stayed around twenty
five all night. We anchored close to a buoy to use as a guide
marker.
 Settled in
Stacia
ALL IN ALL PLEASED
TO BE HERE - PLEASED TO BE ANYWHERE
OUR WINDIEST JOURNEY IN KIND
SEAS
THANK THE LORD THE SEAS WERE FRIENDLY
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