Offshore Island, Venezuela Until we arrived in Venezuela, our electric charts and chart plotters had served us well, guiding us through difficult passages and around shoals and coral reefs with accuracy measured in feet. As we approach Blanquilla, things appeared to be a little off on the chart plotter. The problem was confirmed as we […]
Los Testigos (The Witnesses), Venezuela Larry typically writes the blog. I take some pictures and offer content. But I thought I should do this blog entry because I am the reason we almost didn’t go to Los Testigos, Venezuela. When we first decided to go to the outer islands of Venezuela, we were at home, […]
Grenada We arrived in the south of Grenada Island with a long list of things to do. The plan was to get the boat repaired (from being hit in Bequia), repaint the bottom with new anit-fouling paint, see the island, and Mary was heading home for a few days to work on taxes. After meeting […]
Petit St. Vincent and Petite Martinique After several busy days with Carnival in Cariacou, we sailed to two tiny islands for some recovery time. Petit St. Vincent (pronounced Petty St. Vincent) and called PSV is part of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Just a short dinghy ride away, Petite Martinique is part of Grenada. There […]
Carriacou, Grenada We got wind of carnival starting in Carriacou, so we checked out of the Grenadines and headed off to Grenada. Most people think of Grenada as the island that the US “liberated” in the 1980’s, but it is a country made up of a number of islands, one of them being the large […]
Union Island, Grenadines West Indies Going to Union Island was not high on our list of “must dos,” but it was on the way south so we put it on the itinerary. Some ten years ago, we made a one-hour stop in Union while chartering and we were not impressed. Add that to the fact […]
Maryeau, Grenadines West Indies The passages between the islands in the Grenadines were getting shorter and shorter. On the trip from Tobago Cays to Mayreau (pronounced My-row) we didn’t even bother to put the sails up, as it would have taken longer to get them up and back down than it took for the whole […]
Tobago Cays, Grenadines We arrived at the Tobago Cays, after a short motor sail from Canouan, to find most of the moorings taken and the anchorage pretty full. In the end this worked out well for us, as we anchored away from the crowds, between the reef and the islands with a clear view of […]
Canouan, St Vincent & the Grenadines The sail from Bequia to Canouan (pronounced Can-oh-wan) was a short three hours with just the Genoa and the wind on the beam, very comfy. Canouan is a small island, so we set out on a hike to see it by land and nearly got arrested for trespassing. The […]
Bequia St Vincent & the Grenadines We arrived in Admiralty Bay, Bequia early in the morning and spent the day resting up from the passage and searching for someone to repair the alternator bracket that broke as we motored out of Dominica. We were lucky to find Fix Man, a local welder who was able […]
