Dudley wanted to leave @ 6:30 as a safety net! It took us 9 hours for a 7 hour trip @ 5kts the last time we did this leg! We didn't leave until 8a because the office doesn't open until 7a to read the water and electric meters, return our $500 (EC) deposit for the internet modem and check us out! "If we get to Carriacou after dark I'm going to be ticked", says my captain!

I read in Doyle's guide that hugging the Grenada coast until you get to the NW tip and then tacking to Sauteers (in the middle of the north coast) will give us a lot of easting and we can skirt the volcano exclusion zone well to the east. We did just that, cut through the Three Sisters, sped by Isle De Ronde and had a superb sail! It was rough, but the day was gorgeous and boisterous just the way we like it! Oh, it's so good to be sailing again.

We are now in Carriacou! Granted, it's only 35 miles (only l,750 to go "as the crow flies", says my honey), but @ 5 knots we made it in 7 hours and were anchored in Tyrell Bay by 3p.

The seas and weather are still predicted to be unruly, big and riotous, but we will just have to wait and see when we can leave for the Grenedines!

We made it...loved it...and it's wonderful to be cruisers again! Hip Hip Horay!

Dudley and Bec