The alarm clock rang at 1:45 am today, but I was laying there awake for the last hour anyway! There were 4 boats in all, all heading for Grenada. The first 3 hours of darkness presented us with numerous freighters and small fast moving mid-size boats. We were constantly on our guard watching the radar and measuring angles looking for potential collision courses.
The second section of the trip was very enjoyable with naps for both of us and daylight with beautiful conditions complete with dolphins. (Laurie missed that section, since he was napping!)
The third section of the trip was like a big storm with sharp rollers and winds up to 28 knots. We were continuously inundated with salt water in the cockpit and even discovered that the one window at the waterline that hadn't leaked before was found to have leaked and caused some sleeves to need fresh water rinsing. The great part of too much wind was that it wasn't on the nose, instead was on the beam. Cat Tales behaved beautifully and delivered us here in only 11 hours, arriving at 3:00 pm...a record for us. Last year we had so much headwind, we had to change our course and land in St. George's at 9:30 pm, so all in all it was a great day.
I have cleaned some of the salt off the boat which will give us a place to sit in the cockpit and Laurie has already gone in to customs and immigration and cleared us in.
Cheers,
Dawn
