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 […]
Category Archives: Passages
Sunday, January 18 Miles traveled: This morning we left Les Saintes at a little after 7am. It was a motorsailing day with winds less than 10 kts which means the waves were <1 feet. That means it was a VERY comfortable sail which I loved. We traveled 23.4nm to get to Pigeon Island in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Thursday, December 4 Today is the big day we finally leave Chaguaramas for Prickly Bay in Granada. We listened to Chris Parker and the local net before we went to check out with customs and immigration. On the net a woman Inga was looking for a ride to Grenada so we got in contact to […]
Wednesday, December 31, 2013 We left Normans Cay at 8am on a warm sunny day with wind 7-8 kts from the east. SV Going Knots and SV Angelica, both French Canadians, left within minutes of us. I can tell we have been here awhile as I saw a school of minnows and 2 gar fish […]
Travels with the Dolsens 