Year: 2014

It is well known that the most dangerous part of sailing is not the ocean crossing but the dinghy ride particularly in cold water and on fast flowing rivers. But unfortunately a tender was found on Saturday on the rocks, engine in gear with no fuel in the tank. 48 hours later the body of a man from Quebec was recovered from the bay. We think it is our anchor neighbour who is missing. We watched him arrive alone and very competently lay down his anchor. A few days later and we look out every evening and morning to see

A short movie down the Carenage, Grenada. Taken from The Balcony, also known as The Schnitzel Haus.

A couple of weeks ago Last Dance, a catamaran at anchor in Prickly Bay, had everything stolen. By that we mean everything except the kitchen sink; pumps, solar controllers, electronics. We don’t have a complete list but the poor owner was looking for toilet spares just to get them working again. And yes they even took the saloon table…it’s very disappointing to hear of such an event in this bay.

Last time we were in St George’s we brought you pictures of the world’s largest private motor yacht. This time we came across the largest sailing yacht EOS owned by a guy who has a normal day job……Diller was “the highest-paid executive [of 2005 fiscal year] according to a report by The New York Times with a total compensation package in excess of $295 million. So that’s the two largest yachts now done and from here on it’s downhill…               EOS is 305ft LOA.                    

It’s a funny thing when you have the freedom to roam the earth and you can’t quite decide where to go. The charts below show that we look at the earth relative to our current position and we have now plotted routes from the Caribbean: Through Panama to the Galapagos, or via Easter Ialand, to the Marquesas and onwards South to Guyana and Surinam North to Florida and up to New York/Rhode Island East via Bermuda, the Azores and to the UK/La Coruna/The Med And a general alternative along Cuba and Puerto Rico The swing-o-meter is currently trending toward Western

Yep we have been to Choo’s a few times now and here we are back again. Last time I sneaked in my own jar of chilli paste to hot it up a bit. Dinner begins not by perusing the menu but by spraying mosquito repellent as the sun goes down at just after 6pm.    

St Patrick’s Day was a rolly one at anchor in a F5 wind which is higher than we have seen for some time within the Bay. But the sunset was OK.

We have had great fun with Paul and Andi and we watched them up anchor and slip away to the east…on what turned out to be the windiest day we have seen for weeks.

We’ve read about people making long journeys and over time just about everything possible seems to happen. You start to think what that? And that? Oh no there’s more. Is this really the case? Short answer…if it can happen it eventually does…or it’s just round the corner. Our Onan generator was borne in 1988 and having trundled on for 26 years, a generation, decided to semi-retire. Instead of pushing out 220V it was dropping, and finally remained at, 110V. So we had the ‘not the Cuban’ Davis over from Prickly Bay Marina to have a scout around. He checked the

We had Talulah Ruby III and Calypso onboard for an evening of lamb curry (tons of it as our generator gave out a few days ago and lots of Las Palmas lamb defrosted) followed by the very entertaining Really Nasty Horse Racing game.