12:27.36N  61:29.23W

 

Monday 10 February 2014

 

Distance Run 10nm

 

We paid up at the marina and left at 11 am, sailing west under genoa only along the south coast of Grenada before turning north and motoring up the west coast to the anchorage outside St George’s harbour.  It was a pleasant couple of hours and the anchorage was peaceful.  The windlass operated correctly and anchoring was fuss free.

 

 

 

At anchor with the cruise ships:-

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 11 February 2014

 

Distance Run 31 nm

 

We got away at 8am the next day and with the mainsail set and engine running we motor sailed up the west coast of Grenada towards the island of Carriacou.  This was the first time we had seen the mainsail set since it had been repaired and the repair didn’t look too obvious and the shape was still fine.  We held our breaths as we first passed the point at which our engine had stopped and then the position where the main had ripped over 3 weeks ago.

 

The tide was setting strongly to the west as we passed north of Grenada and we were gaining massively on boats who were under sail only.  Even though they were travelling faster through the water than us we were able to point more to the east using the engine to counteract the current.  We just wanted to get there and decided today was not the day to be purists.

 

As we passed the small islands and rocks to the north of Grenada we also skirted around ‘Kick ‘em Jenny’ which is the name of an underwater volcano.  It was not active but when it is there is enough gas in the sea for it to affect buoyancy and boats have submerged.

 

We approached Tyrrel Bay on Carriacou at about half past one and were anchored about 10 minutes later.  Rob and Rhian from Beyzano were in the bay and came over to say hello and have a coffee.  Having seen us having to anchor twice (the first time we ended up too close to another boat) they declared we must have been showing off our newly working windlass.