Distance to go 31 nm  This is to a new waypoint at the south of Barbados.  There are a further 22 miles up the west coast to Port St Charles Marina.

 

 

 

I put a request in to Simon about the awkward sea yesterday afternoon and, although it took him a couple of hours, he managed to produce something more consistent later.  We had a very good wind strength of 16-21 knots for most of the day and because it was coming from a good angle we carried nearly full sail and made good speed.

 

As I write this there are 26 nm to 'South Point' (our original waypoint was at 'North Point' - the Bajans are creative in their descriptions of headlands) and another 11 nm to Carlisle Bay.  It looks likely that we will stop in Carlisle Bay as I think it will be dark before we could reach Port St Charles.  It will certainly be after 4pm local time so Customs and Immigratin will have gone for their flying fish sandwiches. 

 

Assuming we 'chuck the hook' in Carlisle Bay tonight we will sail up to Port St Charles tomorrow to check in with Customs and Immigration.

 

Will update when we know more.

 

 

 

Just checking the knot before re-launching the 'turbine' and 30m of string for the towed generator:-

 

 

 

 

 

Destination in sight on the chart plotter.  Note the little boat towards the bottom right of the screen.  The waypoint some way south of land avoids some shallower water which the pilot book advises often has rough seas.  The bottom left box shows 30 nm to the South Point.  The next box to the right shows the total miles logged in the boat (16000 nm).  Underneath this, the figure for the Trip is shown as 64 nm.  It is really 2064 nm - it resets to zero every 999 nm:-