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 […]
Category Archives: Dominica
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 […]
January 14 Wednesday We are leaving tomorrow for Les Saints a small island group south of and part of Guadaloupe. We had filled up with water and gas yesterday and this morning we were going to the IGA grocery store. After listening to Chris Parker’s weather we got ready to go, but it kept raining […]
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 […]
Travels with the Dolsen’s 