Just arrived in the anchorage outside Rodney Bay Marina and Peter has gone ashore in our new dinghy to do Customs and immigration.
Quite an eventful journey from the BVI!! We left the BVI very early Friday morning as soon as there was enough light to see and 10 miles after leaving hit a severe squall with winds of nearly 40 knots and lashings of heavy rain! This is when we discovered we have a leak in the foreward hatch as we took on loads of water over the bow. Oh well add it to the list of jobs to do in St Lucia!!
Saturday was a much calmer day with lots of hot sun to dry the boat again.Sunbathing on the deck in the early afternoon we were circled three times by a French Air Force plane obviously looking to see who and what we were!! There was a ship not under command nearby so we assume this was something to do with it and we heard on the VHF that an EPIRB had been activated so someone was obviously in trouble!
There was enough wind to sail until night and we had to use the engine from midnight until 9am on Sunday as there was not enough wind to sail at least in the right direction!!
Arrived here in the anchorage outside Rodney Bay Marina early this morning so now installed and await the arrival of our crew David and Alison who fly in tomorrow!
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