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Vessel Name: CHAMPLAIN
Vessel Make/Model: Oyster 56
Hailing Port: Burlington, Vermont
Crew: George & Sam Chandler
09 February 2013 | Anguilla
07 January 2013 | Fort Louis Maarina, Marigot, St. Martin
28 March 2012 | 18 19.75'N:64 11.81'W, Barracuda Bank
09 March 2012 | 17 00.512'N:61 45.909'W, Nelson's Harbor
25 February 2012 | 14 29.96'N:61 5.30'W, Making the crossing from St. Lucia to Martinique
24 February 2012
30 January 2012 | Sandy Island, Carriacou
30 January 2012 | St. George's Grenada
27 January 2012 | Grenada
23 January 2012 | 12 31.80'N:61 24.25'W, Rocky night in Petit St Vincent
18 January 2012 | 13 00.0'N:61 16' w
14 January 2012 | 13 49.30'N:61 4.00'W, Sitting Between The Pitons
12 January 2012 | 15 4.23'N:61 20.36'W, In the middle of the ocean
12 January 2012 | 15 52.29'N:61 35.16'W, Iles Des Saintes
11 January 2012 | 16 9.99'N:61 46.94'W, Cousteau National Marine Park, Guadeloupe
09 January 2012 | Deshaies
08 January 2012 | 16 36.81'N:62 3.25'W
07 January 2012 | 17 16.66'N:62 24.74'W, Not where we we indended.
07 January 2012 | 17 48.86'N:62 43.00'W,
06 January 2012 | Grand Case
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09 February 2013 | Anguilla

Update

January 22, 2013

07 January 2013 | Fort Louis Maarina, Marigot, St. Martin

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

28 March 2012 | 18 19.75'N:64 11.81'W, Barracuda Bank

Heading for the BVI's

Heading back to Tortolla....back in Vermont by the end of the month (April)

Saint Lucia

24 February 2012
20 February 2012

Good morning from sunny St. Lucia. I am afraid that as had happened at this time last year, the blog has fallen far behind so this is an attempt to catch up and we will fill the blanks with pictures. Sam left a bit over a week ago ago to visit her family in Vermont. Her mom is not well, but the family has created an incredible support network to manage care, visits and help.

CHAMPLAIN and I are sitting at dock in Rodney Bay St. Lucia. It is a good marina, but I am pretty much boat-bound. There is a fair amount of traffic and craziness here. In the last three days, we have been hit twice by boats pulling into the slip next to us, and once by a boat going by who wasn't paying attention and caught his lifelines on our anchor. We had no damage, but he will have some splainen to do to the charter company when he returns the boat missing a couple of stanchions.

This is only the second extended period CHAMPLAIN has been at a dock this year so catching up on maintenance that cannot be done at anchor has been my priority. All in all they have gone well with most completed smoothly, but consistent with any to-do list, there have been a few that have been extremely frustrating with outcomes less than perfect and will just have to do until more qualified skills can be applied.

The last real communication we sent was as we were leaving for Grenada, February 1st. We had a wild ride almost dead to the wind to Sandy Island at Cariacaou but the next day the winds were more to the east and our trip back to Bequia was 9.5 knots at 55 degrees off the wind and fabulous.

On 8 February, Tom and Cindra flew into Bequia and we began a great trip sailing back down through the Grenadines; Mystique, Union, Tobago Cays, back north to Bequia and then to finally anchor between the Pitons, in St. Lucia where we rested for a couple days. There, sadly Tom, Cindra and Sam headed for the airport and I brought Champlain up to Rodney Bay.

At almost every stop we ran into fellow cruisers that we have met over the last year allowing them to easily join in our activities as we joined in theirs.

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Sailing very close to the rocks in the Oyster Regatta race #4
Great helicopter shots
 
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Created 9 February 2013
Beginning our 2012 -2013 Season and Happy Birthday to Geoff and Jim PROBLEMS POSTING PICTURES - COMING SOON
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Created 7 January 2013
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Created 25 February 2012
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Created 24 February 2012
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Created 29 January 2012
Bequia
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Created 27 January 2012
Down in the windy islands
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Created 18 January 2012
Sailing again
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Created 9 January 2012
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Created 18 December 2011
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Created 7 December 2011
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Created 20 November 2011
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Created 11 January 2011
Wednesday January 5, 2011 leaving Antigua behind and heading for Dehaies
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Created 5 January 2011
With some things to fix from the passage down, we spent 10 days in Nanny Cay
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Created 3 January 2011
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Created 3 January 2011
Antigua, New Years and Friends
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Created 3 January 2011
Beaufort to Tortolla
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Preparing for the 1500
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