06 March 2017 | PIdgeon Beach, Antigua
06 March 2017 | St. John's Antigua
21 February 2017 | The Saintes, Guadeloupe
20 February 2017 | The Saintes, Guadeloupe
10 February 2017 | Bequia. The Grenadines
08 February 2017 | Port Elizabeth, Bequia
06 February 2017 | Port Elizabeth, Bequia
05 February 2017 | Bequia. The Grenadines
30 January 2017 | Bequia, St. VIncent, West Indies
28 January 2017 | Bequia, St. VIncent, West Indies
11 January 2017 | Chagaramos, Trinidad, West Indies
31 March 2016 | Ste Anne, Martinique
12 March 2016 | Sass Fe, Switzerland
02 March 2016 | Le Marin, Martinique
24 February 2016 | Mud baths, St. Lucia, WI
11 February 2016 | Bequia. The Grenadines
07 February 2016 | Tobago Cays
06 February 2016 | Chatham Bay, Union Island, St. VIncent
04 February 2016 | Chatham Bay, Union Island, St. VIncent
03 February 2016 | Port of Spain
Fueling
02 February 2015 | Puerto Williams
Cak/rainy
One thing about cruising is that it isn't all beaches and lazy days. In order to get from Point A to Point B we sometimes have to motor. On this particular trip we were not so hardy that we could get along without our Diesel heater. We also like hot water for the occasional shower. All of these conveniences require fuel as well as some days where we motor. In the US and other more populous countries and places it is easy. Drive the boat up to the local fuel dock and simply put the hose into the tanks and flash your credit card. Here in the Southern ocean nothing is that simple. After two months of voyaging in the canals it was time to refuel. There actually is a fuel dock in Puerto Williams which we checked out but it was really meant for commercial boats. In order to use it you had to obtain a paper from the armada, get there when the tide was right and there was no wind and also when the one service station in town was open, no easy feat. So I came up with the plan to rent a truck, borrow some jerry jugs in addition to ours and go back and forth to the station until we were full. Don on Limbo also needed fuel so we pooled our manpower and jugs. Don also had an electric pump which made the transfer into our tanks much faster. It took the better part of a day but we are now full for the trip to Cape Horn as well as our next journey up the east coast of Argentina.