After my reasonably successful kite surfing endeavors, it is time to head back to Grenada. On Thursday morning I get JACE ready, make one more quick run ashore for another block of ice (how I have been keeping some base level of refrigeration), and then it is time to weigh anchor. By now I have…

Kite Surfing is one of those things I have been wanting to try for a long time. I see a lot of it in the San Francisco Bay Area, on the bay or out on the coast when I bike there. It looks so fun! But the local water is just way too cold for…

My first night in Bequia is quite uncomfortable. The spot I chose to anchor, turns out to be exposed to a swell rolling in from the open sea. Unfortunately, the wind is perpendicular to the swell, so the latter hits us squarely from the side, making JACE roll fairly wildly side to side. At first…

I had planned to stay here in Canouan for one day and take a walk to the windward side of this narrow island. But the anchorage is not great, the wind wrapping around the headland and almost making it a lee shore. I still put the dinghy in the water, grab my stuff and motor…

After the wet afternoon and evening, it doesn’t rain all night. I wake up at 6:30 to blue sky! And unlike the last few mornings, I feel energized and ready for the day. I grab my yoga mat and go to the foredeck and go through my stretching and strengthening routine while listening to a…

With a day delay (see last post) I head out of Union Island’s Clifton Harbor. After an eventful night with multiple downpours and me attending hatch duty, it is dark clouds and boisterous this morning with 20kn winds and only over the last hour the sun has come out and the wind lessened a bit….

The day starts really well with a lovely 1.2km morning swim along the coral reef and a quick visit to “Happy Island”. My comment on Strava: “Beats the pool any time!” Soon after breakfast as I get ready to leave, a local fisherman stops by and offers me a nice size grouper, “just caught it…

It ends up being a busy night. A couple of major squalls came through with pouring rain. So I wake up, close to hatches, go back to sleep. Wake up again when the rain stops and open the hatches. Wake up again to more rain and close the hatches. You get the idea. 6 AM…

It has become clear that Carriacou does not offer enough for another week and a half until Matt gets here. So therefore, I decide that I should head north, and explore more of the Grenadines. However, those islands are no longer part of Grenada but part of the next country, St. Vincent. So that means…

Not to worry – I am alive and well. Been slowly getting used to cruising life and not feeling like writing. So let me catch you up: I arrived in Carriacou’s Tyrrel Bay on Tuesday just before sunset. I wake up to a cloudy and windy morning. No matter; I had already decided to stay…