L'Aventura Voyages
| Vessel Name: | L'Aventura |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Privilege P42 |
| Hailing Port: | Oban |
| Crew: | Andy, Sue, Iona, Keir |
| About: | We are all healthy, wealthless and not so wise. |
03 June 2009 | Enroute to Tobago
26 May 2009 | Portsmouth, Dominica
14 May 2009 | Tintamarre
02 May 2009
30 April 2009 | Tintamarre
10 April 2009 | Spanish Point, Barbuda
28 March 2009 | Spanish Point, Barbuda
27 March 2009 | Low Bay, Barbuda
26 March 2009 | Low Bay, Barbuda
25 March 2009 | Enroute to Barbuda
25 March 2009 | Enroute to Barbuda
19 March 2009
19 March 2009
18 March 2009
18 March 2009 | Marigot, St Martin
07 December 2008 | St George, Grenada
12 August 2008
Recent Blog Posts
26 May 2009 | Portsmouth, Dominica
Second Chances and Brave Endings
We left the rain behind in Deshaies - except for a feisty squall that popped the top two slugs on our main. All patched up yesterday. So, the sun shone in the enchanted islands called Les Saintes. An idyll of lush green vegetation, picture perfect red roofed houses, French style and Creole charm. [...]
Good Friday, Shame about Thursday
10 April 2009 | Spanish Point, Barbuda
Andy Byatt
Hello
No pics still - Spanish Pt doesn't have internet. Duh - how does anyone hang at Spanish Pt, then? With ease. Mostly. A beautiful, beautiful place.... above water. I'll talk about the toasted reefs and overfishing in a mo.
Thursday. Not good. For those of you not interested in mechanical woe... skip this para. Finished tightening the shrouds. Then set about doing the tappets on the port engine - the starboard has had all the attention recently, so port was overdue some tlc and indeed, has been complaining. So tappets done went to start the engine. Silence du mort. Flat battery. Or the starter bank didn't have enough power for the start. OMG. So 1 hr later had the engines running after various shenanigans with starter leads, generators and fizzle popping contacts. So peace and love from said engine? Well I was a couple of hrs overdue on the secondary fuel filter. Changed it. Couldn't pump the fuel back through. I finally finished stripping the entire fuel system back the fuel tank by about 2000hrs. Found a small but total blockage. So all is now well, except I am very, very tired today.
Done some nice pics for Sue's new art projects and have got a fine Conch eyeball image. Io is inspired with her jewelry in the Barbuda style. Mr B is mapping reefs from his 8' sailing dinghy. Sue is painting everyday. And I have just been struck off the cooking list. Whahey. Everyone thinks my workload is too high. Democracy rules.
So the fishing. The fish. Well, they are all terrified. Barbuda is beautiful but not underwater at Palaster & Spanish Pt. Everything I have seen is terribly damaged and extraordinarily unhealthy for such clear water. Everyone and everything is busy trashing the reefs and their fish. Tourists spearfish, locals spearfish. Locals netting the reef. In one case a reef was poisoned. And all this in a National Park. Barbuda, Beware. You need to do something to protect your birthright and fast. The reefs have 10% live coral at the most. And generally it is less. Kid yourselves not, this is a large reef system in serious decline.
So tomorrow we move again. And perhaps we'll add another message before Easter. And it will be v. interesting to get a look at reef systems elsewhere on the island.
No pics still - Spanish Pt doesn't have internet. Duh - how does anyone hang at Spanish Pt, then? With ease. Mostly. A beautiful, beautiful place.... above water. I'll talk about the toasted reefs and overfishing in a mo.
Thursday. Not good. For those of you not interested in mechanical woe... skip this para. Finished tightening the shrouds. Then set about doing the tappets on the port engine - the starboard has had all the attention recently, so port was overdue some tlc and indeed, has been complaining. So tappets done went to start the engine. Silence du mort. Flat battery. Or the starter bank didn't have enough power for the start. OMG. So 1 hr later had the engines running after various shenanigans with starter leads, generators and fizzle popping contacts. So peace and love from said engine? Well I was a couple of hrs overdue on the secondary fuel filter. Changed it. Couldn't pump the fuel back through. I finally finished stripping the entire fuel system back the fuel tank by about 2000hrs. Found a small but total blockage. So all is now well, except I am very, very tired today.
Done some nice pics for Sue's new art projects and have got a fine Conch eyeball image. Io is inspired with her jewelry in the Barbuda style. Mr B is mapping reefs from his 8' sailing dinghy. Sue is painting everyday. And I have just been struck off the cooking list. Whahey. Everyone thinks my workload is too high. Democracy rules.
So the fishing. The fish. Well, they are all terrified. Barbuda is beautiful but not underwater at Palaster & Spanish Pt. Everything I have seen is terribly damaged and extraordinarily unhealthy for such clear water. Everyone and everything is busy trashing the reefs and their fish. Tourists spearfish, locals spearfish. Locals netting the reef. In one case a reef was poisoned. And all this in a National Park. Barbuda, Beware. You need to do something to protect your birthright and fast. The reefs have 10% live coral at the most. And generally it is less. Kid yourselves not, this is a large reef system in serious decline.
So tomorrow we move again. And perhaps we'll add another message before Easter. And it will be v. interesting to get a look at reef systems elsewhere on the island.
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