Lunch in Bequia

After a trip into town, Lorna and I had our laundry done at a local laundromat.  We shopped for groceries and odds and ends and headed back to our respective boats with laundry ready to be hung to dry.  Of course, the clouds crowded the skies and it poured rain before we even returned to the boats!  Despite the rain, we hung out laundry, knowing that after every rain, the skies clear and the sun will shine!

Here is Lorna and Brian arriving at the restaurant in the background.  Laurie and I arrived a bit early and entertained ourselves with cold Hairoun beers!

Lorna and Brian and Laurie and I headed into a local restaurant and we're currently enjoying cold noon hour beers and great food.  Two of us had the lobster sandwich complete with bacon and fries and two of us had the chicken with blue cheese.  My chicken sandwich was so delicious, that I would look forward to coming here again.  We're overlooking our boats from here with all our laundry flapping in the beautiful breeze.  Here is a shot of Lorna and Brian arriving at the dock.  If you look hard, you can see our boats in the background.  Peace & Plenty is on the right just ahead of the large catamaran.  We're just ahead of them a little farther out.

We continue to seek a weather window to continue north, while we suffer through 20 knots, gusting to 25 at anchor.  The wind is relentless, and rather draining.  We feel an obligation to be in Rodney Bay when our friends on Aspen arrive from the Canaries on the ARC, but know that traveling on a schedule is the typical demise of boats.  We know that Aspen has dealt with worse weather during the weeks of their crossing and the months spent sailing around the world.  Sunday is looking good, however.