MsChievous

Eating out is always an adventure in a foreign land. Saturday, Susie found a Mexican restaurant in the marina that had gorgeous online photos of their delectable entrees. Nothing that we couldn’t get at home, but we hadn’t eaten Mexican in a while ( except for Susie's great tacos). When we sat [...]

19 April 2024 | Le Marin, Martinique

Reflections

Our ensign (national flag) has taken a beating this year. They usually last a couple of seasons, but the higher winds we’ve encountered this year have taken their toll, much more so than on other national flags we've seen. That’s probably because other countries’ are usually a single piece of printed [...]

12 April 2024 | Portsmouth, Dominica

All aboard - and hang on!

Susie solved a problem that had been perplexing us since we got to the Caribbean: if we were to swim off the dinghy, how would we get back in?? (The tubes are big, and the freeboard is over a foot.) We considered a variety of steps/stairs, but nothing fit. A common problem was your legs disappearing [...]

10 April 2024 | Anse Joli, Ile de Saintes, Guadeloupe

On the seas again! (Sorry, Willie)

We had a great two weeks home for Summit's 7th (!!) birthday, seeing family and friends and enduring two dumpings, the second of which caused us to scramble and change our return flights - but we made it back to Antigua . There were, of course, lots of boat projects in our bags, but I wasn't expecting [...]

20 March 2024 | Jolly Harbour, Antigua

Italian tonight!

Last night in the islands before we head home for a few days. Susie does great Italian dinners, but we're eating out tonight. (Last night, too - great Mexican wraps aka burritos and margaritas that took us down for the count!) Finished up our pre-departure projects today and had a refreshing dip in the [...]

18 March 2024 | Deep Bay, Antigua

Antigua

We've been having such a good time on Antigua that I forgot to keep posting! The clearance was tortuous (2 hours and most of the forms filled out online - and printed - were ignored!) but things got better quickly. English Harbour and Falmouth were filled with megayachts, and we got to see some behomoth beauties sailing. We went to a community BBQ (with reggae and steel drum band) atop a beautiful vantage point (Shirley Heighrs) with two other Hylas owners and ran into other friends we had made several islands ago. They are a delightful young British couple who sailed across the pond earlier this year, and we shared the wild beauty of Antigua's (shallow, reef-strewn) North Sound a few days later. We're now heading to the marina where we'll leave MsChievous for 10 days while we head home for a "vacation" and Summit's birthday.

On the Road Again - to Guadeloupe

04 May 2022 | Deshaies, Guadeloupe

James AuBuchon | No more rain!! Beautiful (although the boat needs a bath)

Yes, we’ve finally shed ourselves of the Virgin Islands are are tonight in the French overseas territory of Guadeloupe! Hooray!

We left the marina – our “home away from home” for 10 weeks and started with a night in Charlotte Amalie harbor. Not only did nothing terrible happen but we had a spectacular fireworks show for their belated Carnival celebration. Then it was off to St. John for a couple nights as we awaited a weather window. We had a relaxing time on the beach and even went over to Coral Bay to Lime Out, a floating taco stand. Customers swim over and lounge in a "lily pad". It’s so popular that all the “seats” were taken a half hour before they opened! We opted for take out (by dinghy) with BYOYetis for our drinks. Great tacos.

The next morning we proceeded up (down??) the Drake Channel, turned south at Ginger Island, and headed SE to Guadeloupe. The forecast softening of winds and a turn to the NE never materialized, but we were able to make it to Deshaies on the northwest corner of the island (226 nautical miles) in one 32- hour tack. The town is delightfully quaint, and we cleared customs in a tee-shirt shop without showing our passports, vaccination cards or (required) Covid tests! Already visited the patisserie!! Looking forward to exploring for a week or so before finding other delightfully different places on our way south. Feels like I’ve finally retired! (Oh, and did I tell you that water is up to 82F?!)

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