Leaving Martinique in our wake
Lady Stardust Faro-Portugal to Barcelona - 2010
Paul Collister
Thu 5 Apr 2007 22:59
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POS 14:49.34N 61:16.44W
Hi all, After a rather depressing and anxious few
days stuck in a run down civic dock in Fort de Franc, Martinique with a broken
engine, we have finally made it back onto the sea.
We are approaching Dominica as the sun sets and
will skirt up its western coast through the night. Hoping to arrive at isle de
Saints just south of Guadalupe tomorrow morning. We plan to spend a day there
and wait for the SE wind to establish itself and strengthen so we can make the 2
day dash to Tortola in fast time.
The trip up from St Lucia was horrible, no sooner
had we rounded pigeon island than we hit building seas and winds on our nose of
25-29 knots, Both boys instantly felt sick and spent the next 12 hours with
their heads in buckets. It was very upsetting to see them suffering, however
they now have got over it and Isaac who had it worse says he would go through it
again to have the fun he had today.
 We had to call for a boat to tow us in to Fort de
France as without the engine we were just getting battered and making no
headway. These babas and the best at going into the wind in rough
weather
Yesterday we left the port in Fort de France and
headed across the bay to a lovely little marina with showers and sit down
toilets, oh what joy we felt. we had a fantastic dinner and left this morning
feeling refreshed. Also the last few days has seen off the clouds and we are all
baking in very high temperatures.
  These were amazing flowering cacti in the
marina, sadly i messed up the focus
 And this is the cable that failed on the
throttle.
Bye for now from
Paul, Max, Gabriel and Isaac
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