Hey folks, I don't know whats happened to the blog but I see that the front page is now different and you can't make comments. I'm working on it but it's not going too well.
O.K as you can see we moved from Marin and went to St. Pierre on the north end of Martinique. In 1902 this little village was called the Paris of the Caribbean and the volcano St. Pelee erupted and killed 30,000 people and left 2 alive that was in there basement. In the town every one of the building has at least one wall from the original buildings. So much for your history lesson.
There wasn't that much to see so we left after one day and headed to Dominica, and on the way this 4 foot Mahi Mahi jumped on a blue Rattle Jet and at the same time one quite a bit larger hit a red one. Now it was rough as hell and all I could do was get the one closet to the boat. The one I lost ran just about all the line on the other 6/0. Well maybe next time I'll get the bigger of the 2.
See Y'all Down the Road
Mike & Karen
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
O.K. folks look close at the green channel marker, it looks like a little green man with his hands on his hips. Just tell me the French don't have a since of humor when they make a marker. Here we are in Martinque at Marin ( Cul de Sac). We always stop in here because you can get anything you need to keep on going.
We left Bequia a few days ago just out of bordom. Been there don that so many times it's getting tiresome.
We had a great sail coming across and I just thought I'd show y'all what we see out the cockpit as we travel.
On the way I hooked a fine sail fish between St Lucia and Martinque, I got 6 tail walkings form him before he got off. Karen & I were both screaming and jumping up and down. O.K I was jumping up and down but Karen was excited also and realy wanted to catch it.
We are getting our Inverter/ Charger worked on. The charger has stopped working with my generator. To start with I thought it was the Genset but today we turned on the the air conditioning and it ran fine so I concluded that it was not the generator but the charger( du )
O.K. that enought info for one day and wy beer is running out and my cigars are on the boat and I'm in the bar so See Y'all Down the Road.
Mike& Karen
Thursday, November 11, 2010
O.K. folks just a supplement to this mornings post. Karen & I had a great sail to Canouan (That's pronounced Can A Jaun for you literary giants) and a good sail back. The island is only 15 miles from here so we made it in 8 hours there and back. We anchored in Charleston Bay and had lunch and since the anchorage was a little Rollie decided to come back to Bequia. We caught absolutely no fish. Next time we go fishing we have decided to go catching instead of fishing to see if that makes a difference. We did buy a nice Red Hind in Canouan of about 2 pounds and it was real good for the evening meal. We will more than likely leave Bequia Sat. or Sun. for St Lucia and look a the damage from Tomas but won't stay very long. O.k. See Y'all Down the Road. Mike & Karen
Hey Y'all, here we sit at the Carriacou Yacht Club ( now I say that with tongue in cheek) there is not o whole lot here in Tyrell Bay. We arrived here Saturday a day behind our friends from South Africa, Ayln & Maurine. We met them in Trinadad and they caught up with us in Grenada. While we were in Carriacou we said hello to some people that we were ask to say hello and to let them know that a friend of theirs has passed away. Now when we went to Hillsborough to pick up a few things we found out that the island has one gas station and 41 Rum Shops. Now to a fellow like me I kind of like the average. We left Carriacou because of our starting batteries decided to just stop and we had to run to Bequia to pay way to much for a new one. But since Bequia is one of my favorite islands. Here you see Karen & I sitting in the Whaleboner Bar that we featured in an early Posting. On the way over here we caught 1 nice Tuna 1 damn Barracuda and I had a Marlin that would not leave one of my lures alone. He hooked up twice but we were sailing at 7.6 Kts. and I could not get the Jib rolled in fast enough to slow down the boat. Today we are going back to Canouan and of course I will be fishing all the way. Well if we remember about a camera we'll take a few more photos on the way over. See Y'all Down the Road. Mike & Karen
Friday, November 5, 2010
Hey Folks, This is just a little note to let you know that we are going to start our march north tomorrow. We are heading to Carriacou, that's just about 40 miles from here and I hope to be able to post some good photos of us catching plenty fish on the way. We have enjoyed this stop over here in Grenada but have seen all we need to. We have met a lot of nice people and hope to keep up with a few of them for they are heading north in a week are so. It looks like everyone here thinks our storm season is over, I'm a little apprehensive to head off at a fast clip so I'll take my time. O.K. See Y'all Down the Road. Mike & Karen