17:08.85N  62:37.83W

21/3/2012

Yesterday we had a good motor sail down from Saba to Nevis. The plan was to just stop here overnight under a yellow flag and set off early the next morning to make for Guadeloupe.

But when we got here I needed to change the watermaker filter after a week in the soup which is Simpsons Bay on St Martin, and then the generator broke down.  “Luckily” its broken down before so I knew what the problem was, so I had to spend an hour changing the fuel filter. Yum, dinner with that unmistakable and very persistent  aroma of diesel.

So I decided to forgo the 0530 start for a long slog to Guadeloupe, and stay here another day “with engine problems” if the local immigration people ask. Its true really…