Thursday 5th May to Sunday 8th May We were rather nervous about visiting St Vincent. There had been many reports of theft from yachts at anchor in the bays along the west coast of the island and in March of this year the German skipper of a yacht was shot

Wednesday 27th April to Thursday 5th May We left at 9am for the 25 mile sail south to St Lucia from Martinique. It was an unpleasant bumpy trip in a choppy sea, a force 4 to 5 wind from the east south east with a couple of knots of current

Thursday 14th to Wednesday 27th April   It was 35 miles from Roseau in Dominica to the French island of Martinique and we were able to sail close hauled, with the wind from the southeast, for a couple of hours only of the 8 hour trip when the wind came

Friday 8th to Thursday 14th April After a week in Prince Rupert Bay we sailed down the coast to Roseau, the capital of Dominica. We had heard that Sea Cat was the man in Roseau and it was one of his ‘associates’, Greg, that met Vega as we neared the

Friday 1st to Friday 8th April As we entered Prince Rupert Bay, Dominica after a 20 mile sail from The Saints, we were approached by a wooden boat with a powerful outboard motor, with ‘Providence’ painted on the side. Providence, whose real name we later discovered was Martin, has a

Tuesday 15th March to Friday 1st April The Saints, back to Guadeloupe, and The Saints again.   As we moved out of the shelter of the mountains on mainland Guadeloupe, sailing south to Les Isles des Saintes, the sea was increasingly rough. Halfway across the straits, renowned for strong wind,

Tuesday 8th to Tuesday 15th March We left volcanic Montserrat at 3am, a dark moonless night, managing to just avoid a small, unlit yacht as we raised the anchor. The sky was stunning, a mass of stars, and we could see both the Southern Cross and Polaris, the North Star,

Friday 4th March to Tuesday 8th March It was a bit of a battle getting here. We set off from Nevis towards Montserrat on the Friday at 6am and when we got out from behind the lee of Nevis found ourselves motor sailing into strong force 5 to 6 winds

Thursday 18th February to Friday 4th March I’ve rather got behind on my blogging but hopefully will be up to date soon. Too much paradise and liming (the Caribbean version of chilling, hanging out), although I don’t think that I’m really a liming kind of person. There have been concerned

Wednesday 16th to Sunday 21st February By which I’m not, this time, referring to marital trouble, but more of that later. Captain Hugh is guest writer on this week’s post. He writes…. “We have at last extricated ourselves from Antigua. Marina fever got the better of us and with hindsight