We hung out in St. Lucia most of the week. Watched more boat racing on Sunday.
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| J24 races in St. Lucia Mango Cup Regatta |
A catamaran anchored in front of us was hosting a J24 racing that was from Grenada. On Saturday, we retrieved a fender they had lost - just not tied well, and brought it back to them. On Sunday, another fender went floating by - this one had a chaffed line. We retrieved and took back to them.
After the races, they then headed back to Grenada, towing the J24. Evidently sometime in the night, they lost the J24 - as it either came untied, or the line chafed through. Guess what - we were not surprised. No worries, someone found the boat, and they got it back.
Monday, we walked to the Massey Gourmet grocery to see if we could find tortilla chips - YES, we did. We can once again eat nachos. 😀
Tuesday rode the bus to the Massey Mega store - like a very small mini Costco, and got some more provisions including a new pillow for Kris's birthday present, and also indulged in two big bags of Reese's Peanut butter cups.
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| New pillow for Kris. Pillows are one item that is very hard to wash on the boat. |
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| Bought two bags of these - yummy treat |
Kris has been trying to lose a little weight since we got back from the states - where we both indulged in too much junk food and goodies. So she has decided that she has to do 5 pushups before eating. So that is 15 pushups per day just for normal meals. Then she decided that each peanut buttercup is 5 more pushups. The only day she has taken off was her birthday - which was a free day. Let's just say that Kris has been doing a lot of pushups this week since we got the peanut butter cups.
There is lots to see while out in anchorage in St. Lucia. Lots of boat traffic, and we watched some construction going on near shore. Was interesting to see two excavators working putting in a brand-new road through the trees.
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| Excavators working in tandem to put in a new road |
Several cruise ships came in for a day and left, so we watched a lot of shuttles taking people back and forth. The shuttles are also the lifeboats
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| Shuttle/lifeboat taking cruise ship passengers to town. |
Wednesday we walked to town about a mile, and got Subway for lunch, on Kris's birthday. The big 60. And yes, the subway here tastes just like the subway back in the states.
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| Birthday lunch (and dinner) |
Looking at the weather, we were trying to figure out when to make the next jump north, and we also were looking at the ARC fleet. ARC hosts an Atlantic crossing for cruisers from the Azores to St. Lucia. There are 143 boats in this fleet making the crossing, expected to arrive in St. Lucia in the coming days. In fact, the first boat already arrived.
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| ARC Fleet of 143 boats, all headed for where we are in St. Lucia |
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| No Rush, a Southern Wind 105GT - first of the ARC fleet to arrive |
With the number of boats heading over, we decided it was time to make the jump north, so we got ready. Kris pulled out our French flag, and decided a bit of repair was needed.
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| Sewed new read end onto a bit of beat up French courtesy flag |
We checked out Friday, and on Saturday headed to Martinique. Nice sail, a bit lumpy as seas were 2 to 6 feet, but not bad.
Arriving in St. Anne was a bit of a shock as to the number of boats here. Probably 3 times more as there were when we were here in May/June. Still a lot of room to anchor. We were in by 13:00, so decided we would head into town, check in and have a nice lunch/dinner out.
It is a 2.6 nautical mile dinghy ride in from the St. Anne anchorage into Le Marin.
We made it to the office to check in just before 14:00, and had to wait 10 minutes, as they were closed and opened back up at 14:00. That should have been a clue.
After checking in, we headed to a restaurant along the waterfront and sat down, ordered a couple of cokes, and then Kris got the Wi-Fi from the restaurant working on her phone so we could translate the menu to English before ordering. We got ready to order, and then were told that the kitchen was closed for the afternoon rest period. So we paid for our cokes, which luckily we had not opened yet, and went to find somewhere else to eat. No luck. We had forgotten that the French islands pretty much shut down all afternoon, and restaurants don't open back up until usually after 6:00 p.m.
So we went to the grocery store - got a few items, then back to the boat. - Oh well, we will plan better if we want to go in to eat again. This harbor has many charter boat companies and a lot of catamarans ready to be rented.
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| Full Marina and mooring field in Le Marin |
Derek has decided that he will be coming to visit in March, so we will keep moving North fairly frequently to make it to Georgetown Bahamas for his visit, but it still allows us about a week at every stop, so we will enjoy St. Anne / Le Marin for a while.
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