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. [...]
Deshaies
14 May 2009 | Tintamarre
Andy Byatt
WE ESCAPED MARIGOT AND ST MARTIN.
Hooo...ray. We've spent far too long in St Martin for a variety of reasons and all of us were going stir crazy. It is a useful place but reminiscent of a Dr Zeuss book..... it's the WAITING PLACE. It's smelly, overcrowded, over trafficked etc, etc. But it's a good spot for reprovisioning and there's always the incredibly friendly Bar de la Mar for an escape from hum drum.
This last visit was to enable me to finish off some very urgent business for a film proposal. The gang were fab putting up with my writing needs and computer woes in a tiny confined space. I got the task done just in time to meet a weather change for the worse, so we ended up being stuck for a few days more.
But no more. We got away in a small window and did an overnight to Guadeloupe. We were strongly tempted to stop at Montserrat but decided to press on because the weather looked like it was picking up. We had a beautiful sail along the East coast of Monserrat, getting a good look at the extraordinary volcano as we swept by.
Deshaies is beautiful. We finally found the customs officers IN. Apparently an achievement. So we are cleared in to France again. And we love the wonderfully laid back approach the French have to the clearance of nautical folk..... oh that some other countries, particularly large ones sprouting Eagles, could have such a laissez faire attitude.
We've had a lot of boat repair to do - the windlass malfunctioned, the starboard engine needed realigning, the port an oil change and there's a wee leak to stop down. Mostly done. The worry is the windlass because with spectacular modern thinking - it has no manual means of hauling in the anchor. DUH. So in extremis you never have electrical failure???? How dumb a piece of design for a boat is that?
So fingers crossed for tomorrow - we aim to haul anchor.... with the windlass.... and set off for the north coast of Guadeloupe.
Keir had a major success today - he managed to get up on his wakeboard towed behind our wee 15hp engine. And the wakeboard came from a poubelle in St Martin! So a very happy, if cantankerously weary, lad on board L'Aventura.
See you.
Hooo...ray. We've spent far too long in St Martin for a variety of reasons and all of us were going stir crazy. It is a useful place but reminiscent of a Dr Zeuss book..... it's the WAITING PLACE. It's smelly, overcrowded, over trafficked etc, etc. But it's a good spot for reprovisioning and there's always the incredibly friendly Bar de la Mar for an escape from hum drum.
This last visit was to enable me to finish off some very urgent business for a film proposal. The gang were fab putting up with my writing needs and computer woes in a tiny confined space. I got the task done just in time to meet a weather change for the worse, so we ended up being stuck for a few days more.
But no more. We got away in a small window and did an overnight to Guadeloupe. We were strongly tempted to stop at Montserrat but decided to press on because the weather looked like it was picking up. We had a beautiful sail along the East coast of Monserrat, getting a good look at the extraordinary volcano as we swept by.
Deshaies is beautiful. We finally found the customs officers IN. Apparently an achievement. So we are cleared in to France again. And we love the wonderfully laid back approach the French have to the clearance of nautical folk..... oh that some other countries, particularly large ones sprouting Eagles, could have such a laissez faire attitude.
We've had a lot of boat repair to do - the windlass malfunctioned, the starboard engine needed realigning, the port an oil change and there's a wee leak to stop down. Mostly done. The worry is the windlass because with spectacular modern thinking - it has no manual means of hauling in the anchor. DUH. So in extremis you never have electrical failure???? How dumb a piece of design for a boat is that?
So fingers crossed for tomorrow - we aim to haul anchor.... with the windlass.... and set off for the north coast of Guadeloupe.
Keir had a major success today - he managed to get up on his wakeboard towed behind our wee 15hp engine. And the wakeboard came from a poubelle in St Martin! So a very happy, if cantankerously weary, lad on board L'Aventura.
See you.
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