Mar 30,09
We up anchored and sailed off the hook this morning and went from 8:00am muster to sailing under all
plain sail in about one and a half hours.
Just as we were preparing to get underway a small tanker came into the anchorage which made things a
bit crowded. We also had an inter island freighter anchored beside us. As the anchor came up we backed
the outer jib and set the fore lower topsail aback and we spun around on our heal quite nicely.
The winds have shifted around more to the East which means we will be heading into them going this way
as we were going into them coming North. The Captain says we should be able to sail most of the way
however which will be good.
Yesterday while I was ashore I spent some time reading up on Dominica. There are 9 volcanoes there many of which have been active in the last 10,000 years. Dominica is probably island that has the greatest
concern since it is overdue for a major eruption. My kind of place :-) Since we will be there for about 10
days I hope to get a good look at some of it.
More later…
It’s mid afternoon and I go on watch in an hour or so.
The weather is fabulous with a steady Force 4 wind blowing from the East and we are sailing “Full and
By” as close to South as we can get. The water is an amazingly luminous blue to windward. I noticed on
the way North that it changed from the green that was common around Grenada to blue. Going this way
the bright Sun in the almost cloudless blue sky is making the seas practically glow to windward of us. I’m
continually amazed at the range of colours that the surface of the sea assumes. Sometimes it depends on
the weather or the depth of the sea but other times there doesn’t seem to be anything obviously different
from the day before but the sea is definitely a different colour. Today is one of those days. Beautiful!
Thanks for reading.
KJ
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