Sunday, April 12, 2009

Bequia

Well, here we are in Bequia after getting up at 3:00 this morning and sailing for 13 hours. It's a zoo down here with the regatta going on, but it will be over soon and things will quiet down.

Back in Rodney Bay last night we had a religious revival pumped through loud speakers from 10:00 pm, and it was still blasting through when we left at 3:00 this morning. We could hear it down the coast for a ways until it finally died off. Later on, one full mile off of St. Vincent, we had to turn our own music down because we could hear the bass from something exciting happening on the shore! Boys, Easter weekend is a happening thing down here!

Sailing was beautiful with most of the time 15 knots on the beam. There were times we had to motor when in the lee of islands, but Laurie didn't mind as he was trouble shooting one more bad battery and needed the extra energy.