May 2024

 

Heading to the Grenadines and Grenada again

We left Martinique and made a night sail to St. Vincent and the Grenadines which we visited on our way north. On the way south we once again passed the island of St Lucia. This time we chose to go on the east side of the island to get steadier Atlantic wind and waves. We anchored at the small island of Bequeia where we cleared in in and stayed a few nights at the beautiful Princess Margaret Beach. ...

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Martinique

Sailing from Dominica to Martinique was fast. The winds blew in our favor so we could even take us further south on the island than we originally planned. At Anse d’Arlet, we hoisted the Q flag, anchored and cleared in to the country. Martinique belongs to France and is part of the EU. Every island is a new country, so there is a lot of hoisting and hauling of courtesy flags + the yellow Q ...

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Dominica

From Saint Martin we had a good 24-hour sail south towards Dominica. The wind came almost directly from the east, but around the islands it became incredibly erratic, as did the waves. We had to change sails and often sheet in or out 😊. We passed west of the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis and Montserrat. As we sailed past Montserrat, we could clearly see the traces of the lava flows from the va ...

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