Saturday, December 20 Miles: 51.4 nm We woke a little after 6am and started making preparations to leave. I was going to listen to Chris Parker under way so got out the noise canceling headphones, extender cable and finally after a lot of searching, the 1/4″ to 1/8″ phone jack adapter. Now I can listen […]
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Friday, December 19 Miles: 20.0nm We asked Chris Parker when the best time would be to go north to St Lucia and Martinique. His response was that today would be very light but tomorrow would be ESE at 14 and a nice day to go north. Lorraine and I decided that today would be the […]
Thursday, December 18 Miles: 25.9nm We woke at 6am this morning and prepared for departure. For the first time this trip, Phil added 10 gal of diesel to the fuel tanks then started the engines to see if the alternator belt would squeal. It was fine so off went the engine while we listened to […]
December 16 Tuesday Trip 4.6 miles We were off to the Tobago Cays this morning. We only had about five miles to go so we took our time. We had breakfast and listened to Chris Parker’s weather. We left about 8:40AM with the mainsail up. We motored around the end of the reef at Clifton […]
Monday, December 15 Union Island, Grenadines Miles traveled: 11.2 nm We started the day listening to Chris Parker’s weather. We decided that we don’t have to rush going North over the next few days. First order of business is to check out of Grenada in Tyrrel Bay. We met with Vision Quest at the dinghy […]
Sunday, December 14 Miles: 43.0 km per GPS We woke to our alarm at 530am while it was still dark. There is no weather forecast on Sunday’s from Chris Parker. We made preparations to leave and released the mooring at 617am about 5-10 min before Vision Quest, which was ok as being a bigger boat, […]
Saturday, December 13 Prickly Bay, Grenada We woke to partly cloudy skies and cooler with dark clouds east of us. By 750am, we had rain. It continued to rain on and off through 10 am. We enjoyed the cooler weather which mind you was still in the lower to mid 80’s. Typical the daily forecast […]
Friday, December 12 Prickly Bay, Grenada Yesterday we woke in the later side and didn’t listen to Chris Parker. That’s ok as we get his emails later in the day. We had breakfast and listened to the Cruisers Net. This morning we were going shopping this time using Paul where he picks up at Budget […]
December 11 Thursday Prickly Bay, Grenada Today we went on an island tour with Cutty, our tour guide. He knows everything there is to know about the spices and things that grow on Grenada. Lorraine and I met in the Prickly Bay Marina parking lot at 9am with our fellow cruising friends Rick the planner, […]
Wednesday, December 10 Prickly Bay, Grenada We started the day as every other then had cereal for breakfast. I worked on the blog, then we decided to rent a cab to go to the Grenada War Memorial and run a few other errands. We went to Prickly Bay Marina instead of risking not having a […]
Travels with the Dolsens 