Position: 17.54N 62.51W

Left marina at 1000 this morning with a 15 knot tail wind on the berth and an anchor to lift that was dropped just a couple meters from boats on other dock. Released stern lines with engine in reverse gear at 2000rpm and windlass pulling us forward. The wind did try and swing stern over towards anchor chain of the boat next to us, marina tender did an excellent tug job pushing us back in line. Just as anchor lost grip the stern had gone again but this time good as a few extra revs in reverse and steered out of the marina. As no drama leaving we were a little early for the 1030 bridge, better that than missing it next one would have been 1630.

A 20 mile beat to St Barts with 2 reefs and full jib, wind varying from 16 knots to 26 in the squalls. Nearly all port tack only the last 10 minutes on starboard. Initially was looking for a mooring ball to hang on but all we could see were private ones, we had to anchor. The bay is surprisingly full of boats and finding some to anchor that was not too deep a bit of a problem. Ended up in 8 meters of water, 35m of chain out.

As had already done arrival on the Gustavia port website, checking in took less than 2 minutes. Will be longer, slightly when we leave as that is when we pay and unusually it will be done on the area of your boat not length.

We have a breakage. The aft port pulpit has a broken stud on one of the bases and moves around a lot. This will need repairing in Antigua, the difficulty will be removing the pulpit and then finding a stainless steel welder who can accommodate the job at short notice.