Had two big squalls roar through on our night watch just as dawn was breaking. One of them I was on
helm for which made for some “fun” steering.
Luckily I had my fowl weather jacket on already so didn’t get too wet.
We should be at the island of Caricou tomorrow morning sometime. That would mean that we should be
able to see their Carnival festivities which will be cool. We will go over to Grenada on Wednesday and
the plan is to stay there for a week and a half or so.
More later…
Just got off the afternoon watch and Veronica confirmed we will be in Carricaou tomorrow morning.
The wind is blowing really hard Force 6-7 with 10-15′ swells. We are sailing under reduced sail to slow
down so we don’t arrive at midnight. There are reefs and rocks around this island so we definitely want to
be there in daylight.
I was on lookout during the daylight and it was fantastic. The ship rose and fell in these big swells with the
wind whistling in the rigging. The sea is bright blue with long serried ranks of whitecaps all the way to the
horizon. It made me want to do a big Yeee Haaa! every time.
Here are a couple of videos I took today.
Later I was on helm which was exciting in these conditions. Looking towards the bow was disorienting as
the relative motion between the bow and stern looks extreme! Then just after it got dark the light in the
binnacle became intermittent with a loose connection. Kolin had it fixed in a jiffy but trying to steer by the
clouds and stars when the bow is swinging through 30 degrees up and down and side to side was “interesting”.
Thanks for reading.
KJ
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