1 January
A lovely and cheerful crew
An entire ocean together and not a single cross word.
A taxi up to Fort de France and back to Kemer.
2 January
Spent the day getting a few "French" stores and clearing out.
3 January
10:00 Aweigh St Anne. f4 ENE 1/2 cloudy
15:15 Anchored Pigeon Island (St Lucia) and then watched Endeavour making a hash of it and dragging!!
In fact it is something of a puzzle how and where she stowed an anchor.
Here is a YW picture of her doing what she certainly was designed for.
Imagine anchoring that! All 135 feet of her.
This is the strip of the Windward Islands
which we planned to sail down before leaving Grenada
for Trinidad in mid-January.
It was more of a delivery than a leisure trip as we had spent a
lovely long time cruising the islands in Kwa Heri in 1990.
However we did have a couple of relaxing days in Port Elizabeth (Bequia)
4 January
04:30 Aweigh Pigeon Island - St Lucia
Wind around 3-4 kt NE
Broad reach
Imposing Pitons
At the southern tip of StLucia
As we emerged from the lee of St Lucia the wind freshened and the seas became quite lumpy but it remained a very favourable reach in lovely weather.
11:00 Into the lee of St Vincent after what was becoming fairly brisk sailing!
12:00 In fact so much of a lee that the mate went for a dip!
15:30 Wind up with considerable swell as we emerged from St Vincent, genoa only with a couple of rolls
!7:00 Approaching the familiar "whale" shape of Bequia
18:30 After a little searching anchored, nicely tucked into Port Elizabeth.
5 January and 6 January
We managed to find everything we needed to get us down to Grenada 
And there was even a sailmaker which surprisingly we did not need
We went ashore for drinks and lunch at the Anchorage Yacht Club.
An unnerving experience sitting beside a huge pool full of sharks. Said to be Nursing Sharks and therefore not usually aggressive...........
10 January
06:45 Aweigh Clifton bound for Grenada.
10:55 Diamond Rock and Kick 'em Genny to port going quite briskly.
14:40 Anchored Prickly bay Grenada. Trip 48.1 nm
Here began a few tedious days of visits to St George's for banking and visa clarifications. Customs and Immigration in Prickly Bay (Anse aux Pines above) were extremely unhelpful. We were unable to leave before opening hours -
14 January
16:40 Aweigh and away!!
18:00 Rather nasty squall passing....One reef and three rolls in the genny. Going nicely as we prepare for the night watches.
24:00 Badly lit yachts to windward, otherwise all well.
15 January (!)
Spoke s/y Felicia who very kindly has arranged to allow us to take over her SATTS mooring
15:40 Picked up the mooring. Good to be here.
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| Chaguaramas moorings |
For Christel's remaining week in the West Indies she had booked a number of very interesting tours.
As usual the day was spent investigating refrigeration and water making possibilities. The evening was a visit with the crew of Sulo to a women's calypso, which sadly was rather unimpressive.
26 January
Met Mike (Malana) whom we had previously met on Kwa Heri. Malana was his much modified Golden Hind. Since our previous meeting he had been home to Scotland twice and made two remarkable return crossings of 20 and 21 days.
29 January
Final decision on the fridge......I will attempt re-insulation myself, the best professional quote was over €1000!!
First meeting with a Whitby couple from the catamaran Time and Tide....Christine and John......They are to be an enormous help and wonderful companions on our trip to Venezuela.
31 January
This is an example of the only practical way of communicating, it is a message sent on the Amateur Radio network by our short wave transceiver. A difficulty in Trindad was the rain because the aerial was much less effective in the rain. (The dry season isn't)
