10/23 1200 position 12-40N 61-30W. Underway for Bequia.
My goal is to post the blog daily, but we need WIFI to do it. We never could get WIFI yesterday. Hopefully we will find some tonight in Bequia.
It got a little bumpy near Kick em Jenny yesterday, but it was nothing that Arabella couldn't easily handle. We zipped along at eight knots with a full jib and single reef in the mainsail. The boat couldn't quite lay the island of Carriacou though, so we dropped the sails at 330PM and powered the final few miles to windward into the island. Nothing hit my second lure.
We mooored for the night off of Sandy Island, a marine preserve in the lee of Carriacou. We powered in to find an empty mooring and picked it up amongst a dozen other cruising sailboats. The crew put on snorkel gear to have a look around, but other than the eagle ray and conch shell that Andy found it was unremarkable.
This morning we powered a mile into Hillsborough, a town directly inshore of Sandy Island where Andy and Lori went ashore to check us out of the country of Grenada. We were underway by 10AM, headed north.
The weather today is even better than yesterday. Temperature in the mid 80's with fourteen knot trade winds, but the seas are smoother. We just sailed through the lee of Union Island close aboard to have a look. Arabella's speed dropped down to five knots or so in the fluky winds to leeward of the island, but we are now back up to eight knots as we close reach up the Lesser Antilles.
There is a fishing tournament today aboard Arabella. Andy has his rod and reel and pathetic looking lure on the starboard hull. I have my hand line and a tantalizing tidbit of a lure on the port hull twenty five feet away. The boat is so wide, it is almost like fishing in a different ocean! The prize is glory, and fish for dinner.
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