Jason Wilkin died at 4:30 am today. We’re up early to find a new cat has moored about 10 feet from us. Unbelievable. “Excusez moi! C’est plus pret, n’est-ce pas?” Blank stares from mom and daughter. My French isn’t that bad. Good thing we’re leaving. I think we will have to take mooring balls here…

I’m up early and before long I’ve knocked off four jobs: did the dishes, lowered the dinghy and pumped it up (more on that later), cleaned the seawater strainer and inspected other cooling systems and cleaned up the cockpit. Swam to shore, walked the windward beach, talked to some kite surfers, found the path to…

We take off fairly early, drop off our somewhat shaky mooring and head for Anse La Roche on the north end of Carriacou. We’re going to try and have lunch at Tim’s there. The sail up is nice, we anchor in the bay with one other cat. We stopped here 7 years ago on our…

Consider snorkel on sandy island, don’t Consider another adventure hike, don’t. Walk to Tyrell Bay, check out. everyone having trouble with Customs and Immigration but we breeze thru – the only delay is waiting for the three groups in front of us to get through. Usually not that busy here … Walk back, it’s pretty…

We’re up pretty early as usual, the weather is a little spotty around Carriacou this week so we have to watch for our spots to go out. We plan to move over to Paradise Beach today but first decide to go on a walk around this end of Carriacou. There is a hike up the…

Well today we are definitely leaving. We’re up pretty early, lock everything down, listen to the Cruiser Net – nothing unusual happening that would stop us from leaving – except for the sudden downpour just as we are about to cast off. We wait a bit, then I go up to cast off George’s lines…

We were planning on leaving today, headed north east to Carriacou. The plan was to have lunch at the underwater sculpture park, then go to Gouyave for their famous fish fry Friday night. Anchor in that bay overnight. We told George yesterday and he is coming by with a float so we can cast off…

Found the rivet gun last night so can go up the mast today. It’s fairly calm so after a bit of breakfast and loading up a tool kit, I go up the mast with Christy on the winch. The tool bag I buckle into the bosun’ seat and glad I took a bunch of extra…

Beautiful day in Grenada this one. Christy and I are a bit slow. One big task left is to go up the mast and replace the broken sheave box with the one I brought with us. Main requirement for that is the big 1/4″ rivet gun I bought in Canada and brought with us. Only…

Today is a bit of an acid test for my foot. I don’t tell Christy, but I am going to walk to Budget (half hour fairly hilly) and back. This will decide if I have to deal with the foot professionally. The walk is ok pain-wise. I buy two Harken beckets (on sale!) 2 soft…