Wednesday, January 7, 2015 St. Anne to St. Pierre Miles traveled: 30.8nm Finally after staying in St. Anne for a week and a half, the wind and waves had decreased enough for us to travel in the Lee of Martinique to St. Pierre to stage to go to Dominica, the next island north of here […]
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January 11 Sunday We got together with Walkabout (Bob and Jeanne) and Vision Quest (Rick and Peggy) to walk to Fort Shirley. We got together at the PAYS (Portsmouth Association of Yacht Security) dock about 930am and walked north on the road. We passed a large resort development under construction funded by the Morocco and […]
Thursday, January 8 Roseau, Dominica Miles traveled: 36.8nm We left St. Pierre, Martinique at 724am with less than 5 kts wind and 7 boats in front of us. Walkabout was ahead of us and had cleared the end of Martinique having 11-13 kts wind and 5′ swells. We started sailing ourselves when the wind became […]
December 27 to January 9 We have described the days in other posts but no mention of the wind. To leave Rodney Bay for the crossing we must do our best to pick a low wind day. For Changes the ideal is 10 to 15 knots. At this wind speed Changes goes 6+ and the […]
Sunday, January 4 St. Anne, Martinique Last night it rained in and off a few times, which was enough to keep the Forehatch closed most of the time. The winds in the upper teens to mid 20’s continue. Phil’s project this morning was to check the water level in the batteries. This time he check […]
Saturday, Jan 3, 2015 We decided to take the local bus into La Marin, the next town over. It was last minute idea about and whether we should get a move on to take the 9am bus or be leisurely to get the 1040am bus. I voted to get the 9am bus so we got […]
Happy New Years Eve Wednesday, January 31 We woke and listened to Chris Parker weather which continue to say that the Christmas winds will continue until mid next week and lazed around until 1030am when we decided to go into town. We walked around until it was 12 noon when we realized too late, that […]
Sunday, December 28 St. Anne, Martinique About 8am, Mike, Jean, Sally and Andy came over on their dinghy in the way in to town for breakfast and invited us. Phil’s initial comment was no, but it sounded good to me so we quickly got dressed, locked up the boat and arrived at the dinghy dock […]
December 27 Saturday Anticipating an early start we had stripped the dingy Friday afternoon. Stripping the dingy entailed taking everything out and removing the outboard. We normally have two gas tanks, cables and locks, the bailer and sponges, plus the outboard mounted on the dingy transom. We were going to tow the dinghy to Martinique […]
Sunday, December 21 thru Friday, December 26 We were having such a good time relaxing and enjoying our stay at a marina,my hat the blog took a back seat to life. So here is the scoop about our stay in a marina which we hardly ever do. Sunday, December 22 Here at Rodney Bay there […]
Travels with the Dolsens 