Month: March 2024
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Side Trip to Saba
We had some time to kill in Sint Maarten while waiting for Douglas’ sister to arrive for a few week visit. We started to look into possible other islands to sail to while we were waiting and came across Saba. After doing some research and talking to some other cruisers who had sailed there in…
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Sailing to Sint Maarten
We planned the 80 nautical mile crossing from Leverick bay, Virgin Gorda to the Dutch territory of Sint Maarten, with our friends on Blue Mist. This crossing is the longest and most difficult crossing on the way to Grenada from the Virgin Islands. The difficulty lies in the fact that it gets wild in poor…
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Cruising, (and waiting) in the Virgin Islands
What was supposed to be a brief stop in St Thomas USVI on January 21st, turned into a week – long waiting game due to poor traveling weather. Every day the wind screeched through the anchorage at Charlotte Amalie as we watched other boats leave the harbor and bob up and down like tops, or…