Safe Arrival in Grenada - Prickly Bay Marina, Grenada

Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Mon 4 Feb 2013 16:14
11:59.903N  61:45.553W
 
February 4, 2013
 
Done!
All 3,750 miles.
Yesterday turned into a lovely sail with light wind, the countercurrent left us to be replaced briefly by a nice positive current, and we ended up having to slow down overnight in order to arrive in daylight.  We couldn't have asked for better conditions with which to eat the last of the cabbage and indulge in a celebratory end-of-passage glass of wine.  When we arrived, there were no gift basket bearing dockhands, barber, freezer guy or bevy of Heineken girls waiting for us, but docking was no hassle, and the boat next to us is one we were parked next to in Simon's Town, South Africa.  Single-hander John and his boat Arctic Tern left Cape Town stopping only very briefly in St. Helena and a Brazilian island, and arriving here in Grenada 64 days later.  64 days!  Makes our 23 seem paltry in comparison.  John is looking very salty with a full beard and bones poking through his extremely thin frame.  Single-handing a sailboat around the world makes what we do seem nothing more than a frolic in the park.  No thanks.
 
Don has already lined up a freezer guy to come by tomorrow, and is now rinsing the worst of the salt off the decks and stainless.  The giant mound of laundry will be taken care of by a local service tomorrow, and we've already purchased a phone sim card and bananas that taste like something more than sawdust.  Ahhh..it's good to be back in the Caribbean.  It's also strange (but good) to be sitting still. 
 
We'll stay in Grenada for about a week before moving on to St. Lucia.  Once there we'll celebrate the official completion of our circumnavigation with our first round of guests, my sister Margy and her husband Rick.
 
Now it's time for lunch and our first Caribbean beer.
More in a week or so.
Anne and Don