Into the lagoon
Irie
Tue 15 Jan 2008 00:02
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Position 18 02.779N 63 05.887W
Simpson Bay Lagoon
Monday 14th January
Moved into the lagoon yesterday, partly to get
within dinghy range of the French bit, and partly because we'd paid for it.
Had a couple of goes at anchoring, initially skidding along with a bunch of weed
on the hook, so then moved further in with more success. Then advised by the
next boat that we're swinging on the border between Holland and France and that
they'd had the Dutch customs on board at 5.30 am. We should be OK as we entered
the Dutch side, and their charges are far higher than the French, hence their
twitchiness.
Had an inital foray to French Marigot- very
run down and disappointing at first look with a grubby beachless seafront,
though the food in the supermarket looks excellent.
Monday's a workday - loads of boat jobs, and yet
another visit to chandlers for stuff. It looks like we've found some LED lights
that will fit the halogen fittings but use a fifth of the power. Set off pm for
the Marigot supermarket, but on the way the engine died again, so a longish row
back though fortunately with the wind - sounds like the same fuel problem,
so Tuesday's first job looks well set up
NB we haven't actually sailed to Venezuela and back
- just a typo in the postion. Interesting to think that the same GPS technology
was invented to drive cruise missiles.
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