This was our first long sail so we left Gustavia around 8 AM. David did a nice tight turn out from between two yachts moored stern-to (one in front of us and one behind). The first part of the sail was a quiet passage along the lee side of St. Barths. Once we cleared the end of the island we had moderate waves. We sailed about 5 hours down to St. Kitts, and then along the windward side of the island and through the 'narrows' which separate St. Kitts from Nevis. Navigating the narrows by GPS is easy, but by dead reconning it might have been trickier. St. Kitts and Nevins are beautiful. The tall central mountains are almost always covered in cloud but are green all the way down to the water. We took a lot of pictures.
We anchored at a nice anchorage on Nevis just north of the capital Charlestown. There were lots and lots of moorings, and very few boats. We were just south of The Four Seasons (which was closed). It was a tricky mooring to pick up but we finally got it. We had a very pretty view of the Nevis volcano (inactive) with a rainbow just before sunset. A shore party went to Sunshine's bar. It looked like a reasonable place but the local crowd was dodgy and Patti and Tracy did not like it very much. While they were all on shore the dingy started drifting down into the waves. Jimi was watching from the boat wondering if he was going to have to go swimming to rescue it. Fortunately David and Alyssa noticed it bouncing and pulled it further up onto the shore. The snorkeling was not exciting, but it was said to be better by the break waters in front of the Four Seasons. Patti made a great spaghetti sauce. Everyone was tired after the 6 hour sail.
There was a rain storm just before dinner and everyone took a quick free shower (by this point in the trip we were starting to appreciate how quickly our fresh-water tanks were depleted by 8 showers....).
This was our first long sail so we left Gustavia around 8 AM. David did a nice tight turn out from between two yachts moored stern-to (one in front of us and one behind). The first part of the sail was a quiet passage along the lee side of St. Barths. Once we cleared the end of the island we had moderate waves. We sailed about 5 hours down to St. Kitts, and then along the windward side of the island and through the 'narrows' which separate St. Kitts from Nevis. Navigating the narrows by GPS is easy, but by dead reconning it might have been trickier. St. Kitts and Nevins are beautiful. The tall central mountains are almost always covered in cloud but are green all the way down to the water. We took a lot of pictures.
There was a rain storm just before dinner and everyone took a quick free shower (by this point in the trip we were starting to appreciate how quickly our fresh-water tanks were depleted by 8 showers....).
Local crowd was dodgy? They accused me of doing drugs because I was dancing on their empty porch while we waited for David to rescue the boat. He was the only one with the money to buy drinks! That wasn't the only thing either!
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