It paid off.
2012 December 28
Well, the bigger sail and the clean hull paid off, we had a fast sail! After an invigorating trip, Rebecca and I are now relaxing in our favorite St. Martin bar, Barnacles. Unfortunately, we are lacking in Wi-Fi on the boat so a detailed post will have to wait until our trip to shore tomorrow. Until that time, have a great day and know that Rebecca and I are safe and sound and appreciated all the good vibes that you sent us.
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So glad to hear you made it safely. I did go to SPOT once or twice to see where you were so I guess what I said earlier about not using it is not quite accurate! Although it probably was because I was sick in bed for two days and was bored out of my mind, and that hardly ever happens to me.
Sick is not good. Hope you are feeling better now.
Glad ya’ll had a fast and safe sail! Sitting at a bar in St. Martin … sounds like a great way to wrap up the year … enjoy!
We had fun here last New Years. Of course, none of our cruising buddies are here with us this time.
Wow…Great speed…Congrats on your trip…..
Thanks, John. We were glad to get it done.
Wow! That’s a pretty good average for 271 NM. Bigger genny obviously a good call.
The passage was actually closer to 330 miles. I only figured out how to reset those counters part way into the passage, hence the 271.
Very well done!
I was following you on Spot, (which went odd, but worked), So I had worked out that you were going well. I hope you are pleased with yourselves.
Mike
Odd? In what way?
All 50 report points were stuck together in a tight ‘caterpillar’. This caterpillar moved as a unit up the chartlet with the 50th point representing your current position report.
So the final caterpillar goes from Basseterre on the 28th to Marigot Bay.
As I said, rather odd. But easy to understand.
Cheers
Mike
Hmmm
Oh so I am not the only one who saw that. I thought there was something wrong with my computer’s ability to load the page properly!!
12.7 knots? Yeah that’s an invigorating sail. Never see that speed while sailing a mono hull. Happy New Year!
I’m sure some monos could do it but they’d have to be pretty long, or out of control.
On CAPRIFOL, 30′ wood hull, I did 12.2 surfing down a wave just off the southern shore of Vieques. It was a day later that my Navik self steering vane broke (real bad) which is the reason I had to steer by hand for the rest of the trip to Maine!
Oops.
Pleased you had a a safe and fast trip, look forward to the full story tomorrow.
Hope you enjoy the dirty details.
Congratulations. Enjoy your time.
Chris
Thanks Chris, we intend to.
Congratulations on a quick and safe passage!!
We just completed our first overnight passage earlier this year (ironically also to St. Martin, but from the BVIs). We were completely stoked so I can just imagine how you felt today. I’ll be real interested to hear some of the details of how you arranged your watches (day vs. night) and how you passed your time, especially as I’m assuming you passed fairly close to some of the islands, judging by your Spot track.
Anyhow, way to go on another notch on the sailing/cruising belt!
Actually we were very far from most of the islands, 20- 40 miles. Today’s post has a lot of the details of what went on. It’s not something that I’m eager to repeat in the near future.
Love your web sight, Just found it a couple days ago. I once helped my friend sail his 36ft colin archer design double ender from suva fiji to N.Z. (21 day passage) your blog brings back great memories. So my question is how did the fish taste? We caught several tuna on our passage but with out refrigeration. we ended up salting to preserve. Got really tired of eating tuna. Cheers JIM
Hi Jim
I can definitely see getting sick of the fish. We’re just trying to eat that which would not fit into our freezer now.
Nice catch!!!
We think so too!