Beach day in The Saints and towards Antigua

‘The Saints’ couldn’t hold us very long. We spent another day at the beach and had a really nice dinner in the little town. Next day we already prepared to leave again. Oh. And I forgot: The windlass was already prepared before breakfast. Guenther wakes up early and instead of idling around, he found the broken cable and replaced it quickly.

We actually do a lot of repairs these days. An electric cable of one of the solar panels was corroded and got replaced, and while I’m writing this, Guenther and Bruno try to glue our outboard engine together. It was broken at the mounting piece and we’ve got a special metal epoxy to fix it.

The Saints are really worth a visit. Nice, small islands with beautiful beaches, lots of goats, chickens and iguanas. But we’d like to visit Barbuda and stop vor a visit in Antigua, the birthplace of sailing in the Caribbean.

The ride towards Antigua wasn’t any special. In the lee of Guadeloupe we didn’t have any wind and had to run under engine but the rest of the trip was quite fast with the wind coming from the east. At four o’clock in the morning we dropped the anchor in English Harbour and ate the remaining cookies, Julia and Oliver made for us. (Thanks ! But next time, we need more. Let Guenther pay for the extra baggage !)

Now we’ll try the dinghy engine to clear in and visit the harbour to take a few pics of the mega yachts that are at anchor here. Maybe we’ll meet Taru and Alex, they should be around here somewhere…

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3 Responses to Beach day in The Saints and towards Antigua

  1. Marco says:

    OH my god! This is really depressive … if u stay in Berlin when the Winter is here ! ;-)

  2. Kira says:

    Ihr dreht ja richtig auf! Ich lese hier andauernd von Reperaturen und nebenbei macht ihr richtig Strecke. Respekt. Wir segeln hier fleißig an der Südküste von Grenada rum und versuchen uns vor dem allabendlichen Rummel zu verstecken, was uns allerdings nur suboptimal gelingt. Aber wir haben ne gute Zeit….
    Freuen uns schon auf San Blas, wo wir ja hoffentlich wieder aufeinander treffen!

    • dafdaf says:

      Jajaja !!! Die Rancho Relaxo wird mit Guenther an Bord regelrecht zur Rennziege. – Da wird alles rausgeholt und kein zehntel-Knoten verschenkt.
      Wir haetten uns ja auch gerne etwas mehr Zeit gelassen fuer Dominica, Guadeloupe und Barbuda. Aber man kann nicht immer und ueberall wochenlang bleiben. Tja.
      Auch wir freuen uns schon wahnsinnig auf ein Wiedersehen. Bruno und Viola sprechen super oft von euch. Und so wie’s aussieht, koennen wir ja wo ein richtiges mega-Treffen organisieren: Thor, Ninita, Tamora, Kira, RR. Das gibt’s dann hoffentlich wieder Hummer satt !! :-)