With winds blowing constantly between 15 and 25 knots and with nary a cloud in the sky it was a great energy day. Between the wind generator and the solar panels, we pumped over 210 amps into the batteries. This is even with the fact that the solar panels did not do much until 1100 because of the shadows that the mast and bimini cast on the panel most of the morning. We are facing east with our bows into the trade winds so we don't get much energy out of the panels until almost noon.

I was worried that we would be dragging our anchor with these winds because we are anchored on a rocky bottom. When I dove on the anchors yesterday I discovered that they were just lying on the cobble sized rocks. The points of the flukes of the Fortress anchor were dug into spaces between the rocks but I would have never thought that we would have held as well as we have.

This morning I took the dinghy to shore to scout of the restaurant and bar that is on the beach in front of us. If it had a respectable menu I would come back to Leu Cat and report to Mary Margaret. Plus, I wanted to talk to someone that might know what the situation was with the 1700's frigate wreck that we had discovered when we were here 8 years ago.

As it turned out, the restaurant and bar were closed and would not open until 1600. I talked to the guard watching the place and he said that the menu was only burgers and finger food: not what we were really looking forward to. He also was not aware of the wreck so I struck out on that also.

However, coming into shore I had spied some divers so I took the dinghy to the other side of the restaurant and down the beach a ways to see if I could talk to someone affiliated with the divers. We had seen two large cruise ships come into Basseterre, the capital and main port of St. Kitts, this morning. Thus, I assumed that the divers were a group of people from one or both of those cruise ships.

As it turned out, the divers were from one of the ships and the instructor was more than willing to talk to me. I explained what I had seen and researched 8 years ago and he was aware of the wreck. However, he said that the deck of the wreck now was usually covered by sand and difficult if not impossible to find. Also, he said of the three cannons I had seen; only one is now there. He suspects that the other two were taken by someone when the restaurant was built a couple of years ago.

We have noticed that just about everywhere we have gone to in the Lessor Antilles this year have changed some since we had last been here in 2008. Progress has been making a steady impact with new resorts, houses, shops and other buildings having been erected. Don't get me wrong, each place is still very nice but it is not has rustic and exciting as it was 8 years ago. It just goes to show you that you can never go back to a place and find it as it was or as you remember it.

Tomorrow morning we leave on our last leg of our passage to St. Marin. We are planning to leave around 0700 and should make the 58 or so nm in about 8 hours if these winds hold up.