Another great weather day. What else? Can you reasonably complain when the weather is too good?

We’re up and organized early as Customs and Immigration opens early and we want to be first in line. We’ve heard lots of stories about hours lost in these processes so we want to get there early before the officials get cranky.

We’re anchored and riding the dinghy in well before 9 am. It takes about 20 minutes and 20 bucks to “check out” of Grenada. That’s the process here – you have to check out of one country before you can check in to the next. But another first for your intrepid heroes, we haven’t done it before. Bingo bango bongo we’re done – just need the part from Island Water World and we are on our way. THAT takes another hour. We know she has it, the delivery guy took it in but she has to process her inventory. Sigh.

But soon enough we’re on our way. We motor out of Tyrell Bay headed for Union Island. We go to raise the foresail (can’t raise the main cuz we have no outhaul nor halyard clutch) as soon as it is out we can see there’s a problem. Of course, the foresail halyard clutch slips too so the jib is sagging at the bottom. Ideally we’d let it go, raise the jib and start again but we’re rocking and rolling so decide to reel it back in and try tomorrow at anchor.

It takes about 90 minutes or so to motor to Union Island. We decide to anchor in Clifton Harbour, get a decent spot and head into Customs and Immigration to check in.

We’re newbies to the process and manage to get the customs ladies to smile at our ineptness (thankfully, cuz they could make it hard if they wanted). Gotta create an account on ClearSail.com. Need an email address but I can’t access mine because now my Grenada account doesn’t work. Grrrr. So I can’t create an account cuz I can’t verify my email address. Well I do a little magic with another email address and their WiFi and get it done. A few mountains of paper and EC$70 later we are through customs, then through immigration and shopping. Nudder first, we have entered another country via sailboat.

We buy stuff, groceries. Any belts for men anywhere? Apparently no men wear belts in the Caribbean cuz I can’t find one anywhere.

We go for a cold fruity drink at Happy Island. It’s overpriced, overrated, and not very cold but you gotta do it. Meet Eric and Ella who we saw departing Carriacou at the same time as us so we join them for an overpriced, overrated, not very cold beverage. Looks like we will see them tomorrow at Mayreau.

The waters are calm in Clifton Harbour but the wind is blowing hard which is a bit of a blessing as it makes for a cool night.

As long as the anchor holds.

And the wind doesn’t change.

The anchor holds and so does the wind, we sleep great.