Martinique
Moonbeam
David and Lynn Wilkie
Sun 13 Jan 2013 19:00
14.30.263N 061.05.354W
On the 2nd January we moved North the 8 miles to the anchorage at Pigeon
Island which is very pleasant but the forecast was for a couple of days of bad
weather and we wanted to do some provisioning so after a couple of days we
headed into Rodney Bay Marina for a couple of nights. The wet and windy weather
turned this into 6 which was convenient and sociable!
It rains in St Lucia too!
We got the ‘dollar bus’ to Castries- the island’s capital – but we found it
disappointing.Very much geared to selling trinkets to cruise ship tourists we
did not find anything to recommend it- even our lunch!
Foiled again in Castries!
Outside the marina was a 24metre Jongert called ‘Uisge Beathe’ with Henk
and Liz on board- they used to live in Kilmelford!
The unsettled weather passed through and we headed back out to anchor off
Pigeon before heading North to Martinique.
Fishermen at Pigeon
Island
Gregory the floating fruit seller
A glorious close reach in 12 knots of wind but a lumpy sea was replaced by
a squall that backed the wind 30 degrees and gusted to 27 knots!
However in the lee off Martinique all was quiet and we picked up a new (
free ! ) mooring ( EU Money! ) in Grand Anse D’Arlet after 4 hours
sailing. 24.6 miles logged
Sunday was a glorious day and Matti arrived in his Swan 46 “Eclipse” –
first met in La Gomera over 2 years
ago! |