Up a bit earlier and off a bit earlier as the trip to Dominica is almost 5nms more than yesterday so as much as an hour longer. Don’t want to get in much after 5 pm as it gets dark fast and the winds are supposed to pick up Saturday evening. The past two days…

Friday the Thirteenth. My lucky day. We do get off at first light, 6 am and start working our way south towards Guadeloupe. It’s 48 nm according to the boating app and at least 8 hours. We’re motor sailing to the bottom of Antigua where the wind starts to pick up. We’re doing alright but…

Both David and Jackie and Christy and I are always watching the weather, especially when there is an upcoming trip. We can see that high winds are coming for Monday/Tuesday which is why D + J decided not to stay in Nonsuch – even though it’s apparently beautiful and protected by reefs, it’s no fun…

We’re planning to go to Jolly Harbour today and overnight I figured out how to rig our whisker pole for the trip. It should be pretty much 100% downwind. We’re a little late starting and I’m rigging up the pole getting ready to go when Jackie and David come motoring into the bay. They are…

David asked if we wanted to try foiling this morning. He needs some help to do it since a dinghy is required for retrieving and pulling neophyte foilers and Jackie can’t pull-start theirs. My shoulder has been killing me though and so I say no. But that was probably a mistake in hindsight. Christy and…

Our friends David and Jackie have come into the bay and swing by as they look for an anchorage. Nothing really viable where we are so they head over to the north side of the harbour. It rains quite frequently here (in the Caribbean in general this season) so often hard to get going since…

We’re up fairly early and head into the harbour to make the walk up to Shirley’s Heights. It’s a pretty famous lookout, several hundred years old. It’s a nice walk around the north-east side of English Harbour, you walk up a big hill, then back down again. About two-thirds of the way down to Galleon…

In the morning we decide to explore a bit of Falmouth/English Harbour on foot. Dinghy in and manage to find a spot to tie up AND lock the dinghy. The locking part is usually the most difficult on this dinghy dock. We find out on Monday there is a much more civilized dinghy dock over…

My alarm goes off at 4 am and we’re up. We look at the Windy app though as I recall the channel was very windy overnight, calming later in the morning. Sure enough, it shows fairly high winds (20+ kts) until about 6 am. If we leave at 5 am, we will get to the…

We wanted to leave today but the Customs situation made that impossible. Have to go in there this morning. They open at 7:30 am apparently and we are there about 8:30 am. It’s a construction trailer basically and one window is partially open which is a good sign but still, the door is locked and…