As sailors, we hate to motor when we can sail. Although, I have to admit, we have done more than our fair share of motoring this year and we do not loath it has much as we used to. My brother and sister-in-law have a wonderful 45 foot Grand Banks trawler and it is wonderful. We love cruising with them and since it is a motor yacht, you have to motor. However, with a sailboat, cruising with the wind in your sails is the most enjoyable thing we can do. For that reason, it looks like we will be here in paradise another couple of days.

The winds have persisted to blow from the S to SSE. Since we wish to sail SSW to St. Eustatius the winds are just not favorable to do that. We could motor there but the course that I have plotted is about 31 nm and with the wind and swells on our bows, it would take almost 8 hours. That would not be much fun. Thus, it looks like we will stay put until Friday when the winds are supposed to move more to the east. They actually will begin moving to the east tomorrow but it looks to be a slow process and Friday is looking to be more favorable to sail than Thursday.

Today, we stayed on board Leu Cat again. The wind and the seas were just too much to go snorkeling in. Plus, they have churned up the water and stirred up the silt some so the visibility is not the best. We did notice that the swells were moderating this evening and should continue to do so as the winds slowly move from the south to the east so we have hopes of snorkeling one more time tomorrow.