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Beautiful Tobago Cays We had a nice day sail from Bequia to Mayreau.  As we made our way in to the harbor at Mayreau,  a local boat boy Danny MacKay stopped by in his skiff, asking if we would like lunch to be cooked for us tomorrow.  We thanked him, but declined, although we did say […]

Ok, so moving along, Cath left the last blog in Saint Lucia, home of the great Pitons, which are just as magnificent sailing past as they were being moored under.  Leaving the Pitons Off we go to the Grenadines, a place we always look forward to seeing. As you may remember, Cath’s mom, Gail, is […]

Joana on a mooring in front of the Pitons Sulphur Springs Oprah Winfrey reportedly has said that the Pitons in St Lucia should be on everyone’s list of top 3 places to see before you die. Now, we don’t go by everything Oprah says, but my mom was coming to visit, and we thought that […]

What an awesome sail we had from Guadeloupe to Martinique. You know those days when everything just comes together? 18-22 kts of wind, 2-4 foot sees, wind just a smidge forward of the beam? Jo-Jo screaming with all sails set at 8 – 8.5 kts! Okay, fine, for some lighter boats, that’s a decent day […]

The first sentence in our guide book describes Dominica by saying “ If Christopher Columbus came back today, Dominica is the only island he would recognize”, and he is 100% right. Even as you are sailing by Dominica, you can tell this island is different…wild, lush, magical. Maria in the rain forest We had a […]

Scooter Row Great logo! Iles Des Saintes (or just simply, The Saints) are only 5 miles from Guadeloupe at the nearest points, so it was a quick sail to the only town, Bourg des Saintes on the largest island in the group of islands that make up the Saints. Everyone that comes to the Saints […]

Deshaies Fish Market in Pointe a Pitre Usually if you wait a few days after a good blow, the seas will calm down a bit and you will have a nice crossing. This was not the case from Antigua to Guadeloupe. But, the nice thing about the Caribbean, is , for the most part, the […]

K & K – Nelson’s Dockyard  So, where were we? I believe we had just left Saba in the middle of June. Well, we had to be in Antigua by the 20th of June, as our friends, Katie and Kristen were flying in to hang out on the boat for a week. It is about […]

Like all good hidden kingdoms, Saba doesn’t come easily, and the cruising sailor who wishes to visit must be prepared to pay the price of possible frustration in the face of the elements …Many bare-boat charter companies make [Saba] off-limits for their guests” – Chris Doyle, Cruising Guide to the Leeward Islands Turk holding onto […]

St Johns, USVI We opted to forgo the constant rolly–polly anchorage in St Thomas and instead dropped the hook at Gallows Point in St Johns, just around the corner of Cruz Bay where the town is. There were three other local boats in the area, and like good anchorers we are, we adhered to our […]