Tuesday, February 24 Miles traveled: 8.3 nm The Baths, 9.7nm Great Harbor, Peter Island We left Virgin Gorda 731am after Phil had to tighten the Alternator belt from squealing. We quickly let out the head sail and started towards the channel with the Star Clipper Cruise Ship leaving also towards the same channel then we […]
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Saturday, February 20 I woke early a little after 6am and read until time to listen to Chris Parker Weather. The wind is to increase later today and tomorrow and start decreasing on Monday with a North Swell for the next 24 hours developing. We are protected from the north swell (we hope) and have […]
Thursday February 19 to Friday, February 20 Miles Traveled: 81.6 nm Overnight to Virgin Gorda We had moved Changes out of the lagoon at St Martin on the 2:30 bridge and anchored off the beach. Once again following the 8 coordinates we wrote down after a cruisers Net, we saw water 5.8ft under the keel […]
Indian River Tour Saturday, Jan 10 We woke at 630am and it was raining on and off heavy, so there goes us going into the market. We had made arrangements with Martin of MV Providence for going up the Indian River at 9am this morning. By that time, the rain had stopped. Martin goes with […]
Friday, January 9 Miles Traveled: 19.8 nm Not having a long passage today we listened to weather and had breakfast not releasing the mooring until after we raised the Main Sail at 820am. The lines were unusually twisted so took a few minutes. After a few minutes we rolled out the head sail with a […]
Thursday, January 8 Miles Traveled: 36.8 We listened to Chris Parker weather and then raised anchor at 740am for Dominica with 7 boats in front of us. Guess we aren’t the only ones that thought this was a good weather window to go between islands. We started with 1′ swells 30 min in which increased […]
Saturday, February 14 French side, St. Martin We started out the day listening to Chris Parker weather then Mike from Shrimpys Cruisers Net which starts at 730am channel 10. Phil likes to start his projects early so after a quick breakfast, we left at 930am to go to the Ace Hardware store. You dock at […]
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 Miles Traveled – 47.1 NM We have been in Jolly Harbor, Antigua for a couple days, but we have our weather window and it’s time now to leave this beautiful place and sail to Nevis. We released our mooring ball @ 631am with Walkabout bringing up our rear as we exit […]
Thursday, February 5, 2015 After breakfast, we quickly got the dinghy in the water and the outboard on the dinghy. It’s about a mile away to the Ferry dock and town. I want to do some grocery shopping and we are also walking to the natural Hot Springs with Bob and Jeanne. First thing though, […]
Monday, February 16 St. Martin West Indies Hi everyone. Sorry that I haven’t posted lately. It’s NOT because I’m feeling bad or because I’m not enjoying the trip. Actually it’s been a better trip as we have been buddy boating with Walkabout and Vision Quest who just left early this morning for the BVI’s to […]
Travels with the Dolsen’s 