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 […]
Category Archives: Martinique
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
December 30 Tuesday St. Anne, Martinique We had arranged with Rick from Vision Quest that we would follow him in to the marina at Le Marin for us to get water, gas, diesel, and food. This was the second longest difficult dinghy trip we have taken at 2.25+ miles. Our longest one was in Rhode […]
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 […]
Travels with the Dolsen’s 