Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Sunday April 12,09
I hope Eostre’s Hare was good to you all and you didn’t overdose on chocolate :-)
We had a busy day today.
This morning we cleaned up the ship, re-lashed all the stuff that had been unlashed over the last few days
so the on watches could paint the topsides. We also stowed a lot of stuff preparatory to getting underway
for Antigua.
We up anchored and motored away from Martinique at 3:30pm this afternoon. We kept motoring using
the fore and aft sails until we passed out of the lee of the island then took in the sails and motored North
East until around 6:00 when we set all sails.
The plan is to sail North towards Antigua on the Windward side of the islands. This will mean some tricky
steering as we will have to steer really close to the wind to make the Northing we need.
We finally had some luck with the fishing lines. We caught a Barracuda and a pretty big Marlin within a
half hour of each other.
Just as we were getting ready to go off watch at 8:00pm a big rain squall came in and thoroughly drenched
us before hitting us with strong wind gusts that necessitated taking in the flying jib in the pitch dark and
rain. A damp but effective way to get everyone back into sailor mode.
My tattoo looks good still, which is a relief frankly as I was afraid of a bout of “buyers remorse” this
morning :-) There were lot of tattoos done while we were in Martinique something like 20!
The trip to Antigua will take a couple of days so we should get some good if tricky sailing.
Thanks for reading.
KJ
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