?Cuba or ?Colombia
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Wed 7 Feb 2007 12:54
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February 4th 2007 from
Klein Caracao to Curacao.
We had an overnight windy
rolly stop at Klein Caracao. When we went for a walk around the
island this morning we inspected a very sad sight: a large wrecked ketch, lying
on it's side on the reef. It had only run aground in the last month
or so, and the shore was strewn with beds and liferafts and all the bits and
pieces of boat life. Apparently the French skipper had fallen asleep... It
was very shocking for us all to see such a fine boat all ruined. The
owners got off it unhurt.
An uneventful sail downwind
to Curacao, a Dutch island which takes plastic as oppose to fistfulls of
dollars, and all without background gunfire. Three
Cheers! We arrived in an amazing harbour called Spanse water, which
feels really European, with a cordoned off beach and barbecue area.....and an
ICECREAM BOAT with a ringing bell!
I suppose that we have been
off in the wilds for two weeks, where the only people we have seen have been the
odd fisherman or yachtie, no one else. The fishermen have been glad to see
Chris, who has stitched up one nasty finger gash, and looked at another with a
bad eye. Obviously we have been eating a lot of fish as a result..... on
top of four days of ploughing through the giant baracuda.
So it is really amazing to come into a big modern harbour, and have a meal out,
and see roads and cars....
Chris is busy working out
whether to sail west via Colombia and Honduras and Belize, or north to Cuba and
Mexico. It's nice to see him getting his teeth into nice big chart
plotting plans, having seen him spend weeks working out tides for a
single Welsh Wayfarer trip.
The Sarah Grace has done
lots of sailing in the last two weeks, and has not let us down.
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