We are on our way back to the south of Grenada to drop Jane off close to the airport when we start to hear radio messages calling the coastguard.  They don’t reply but a dive school does to say that the Coastguard are on another channel but a best contacted by mobile phone.  Crikey.

We then see a rather care worn boat called Magic and realise by the raggedy state of the sails and lack of prop wash that they are probably in trouble.  No engine, sails stuck means no control and going round a headland where wind and waves are always worse is not a good place to be.  The boat was much bigger than us so there wasn’t anything we could usefully do other than talk to them on the radio and say that we would stay close until the coastguard arrived.

To our surprise we then heard Magic try to call them again and they replied.  Even more to our surprise Magic then asked where they would be towed to and, when they didn’t like the answer, said it would be more convenient if they could be taken to a bay further along the coast.  The Coastguard pointed out that they would take them to the nearest bay where there were repair facilities and that would be it.  Fair enough we thought.