Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
After getting the ship cleaned up and down rigging all the lumber hauling gear we up anchored and
motored away from St Georges on a passage to Bequia in the St Vincent Grenadines.
As we were heading North the Royal Clipper cruise ship came in. This is a 5 masted square rigged cruise
ship. the only one of it’s kind in the world. It didn’t have any sails set and as we crossed her bows under
all our fore and aft sails we blasted our horn and waved. She returned the salute in kind. I wonder what her passengers thought when they saw our little Barque
We motored for an hour or so to get North of Grenada and then we set the courses, topsails and t’gallants.
I kinda hoped my glasses would fallout of the sails when the were unfurled but no luck, the sea has them.
The passage to Bequia is 70 miles or so depending on how far we have sail off the direct line and whether
we will need to tack or not. We should get into Bequia tomorrow morning so I will have my first night
watch since coming back on board.
More later…
My night watch was very busy. We wore ship just after we went on watch. I was on helm which was
interesting. Then about an hour later the wind shifted such that we couldn’t keep our course to Bequia so
we ended up motoring in.
We arrived at 10:30 this morning and dropped our anchor amongst a ton of yachts. This is a very popular
place apparently. I’ll let you know how it goes
Thanks for reading.
KJ
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