November 14-18, 2017

We stopped in Martinique for the night, but left in the morning. We plan to spend some more time here later in the season, but the Salty Dawgs have started arriving in Antigua so off we go.

After a 9-hour sail, we arrived in Dominica. This island was devastated by Hurricane Irma. You can see where rivers of water flowed down the mountains and took away everything in their paths, pushing trees and debris on houses at the bottom. Dominica is an independent island, and it will take a long time for them to recover, but they are already welcoming cruisers back to their beautiful island. We spent a few days there last year going on a tour of the Indian River and hiking up to beautiful waterfalls. We are looking forward to visiting there again on our way south in January and seeing more of this beautiful island.

On 11/18/17, we arrived in Falmouth Harbor, Antigua, to join the other Salty Dawgs who came down from Virginia in the Rally. There was an Arrival Party, a Tail End of the Dog Party (for the last arrivals), and then we had a wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner at the Antigua Yacht Club with all our friends.

In between all the partying, Bob and I removed the four large windows in our boat and resealed them. It took almost an entire day to remove one and clean all the old sealer from the window and the window frame because it had to be completely clean before setting and resealing them again. This was NOT an easy job. Black urethane (the sealer we used) gets everywhere! Hopefully, they will not leak again for a very long time.