Knot Normal - The Adventure

We are in Bas-de-Pitre, Guadeloupe now.  We are sorry to say that the Kubat's will be departing today for the long sad journey home.  The Mayos and the Keyes will sail on to Antigua.  It has been a wonderful trip except that the girls are one rubber ahead of the boys in bridge. Breakfast at a French bakery- aaaaahhh The French bakery Mayo with a beer bigger than his head The gang Sunset over the island of the Saints in Guadeloupe 

Mayo with the catch of the day Mottly Crew Dorothy with her fist catch On the route from St. Lucia to Martinique we hooked 6 fish: 4 dolphin and 2 amber jacks.  We landed all but one.  Today we made up for the one we missed and landed another dolphin.  We are now in Martinique in the town of St. Piere. Becky with today's dolphin.  Gary in the background.

We did the crossing from St. Vincent to St. Lucia in record time.  We consistently achieving 8 knots and frequently hitting over 10 knots.  Frank caught a nice dolphin which we will eat tonight.  We picked up the Gary and Becky Mayo in Soufrere, visited the Dasheen Hotel with the wonderful view between the massive Gros Piton and Petit Piton. Today we sailed to Margot for lunch and then tied up in the Rodney Bay Marina for tonight.  Its a great place to provision, wash the boat, turn on the AC, charge up the batteries and just chill out.  Tomorrow we set sail for Martinique. Frank with the fish of the day -Dolphin Becky with Frank's new hat Capt'n Barry at the helm with the Pitons behind Gary and Becky at Dasheen Petit Piton from Dasheen Hotel Frank, the dingy captain, fell in fully clothed getting in the dingy Knot Normal

We are back in Clifton Harbor on Union Island.  Frank and Dorothy Kubat joined us back in Grenada.     We caught our first fish, a jack, this morning.  We had a couple of great sunsets and wonderful dinners.

We hauled the boat and she is on the hard.  She needs new bottom paint and we are leaving her in Grenada for a 5 weeks as we go back to North Carolina for Courtney's wedding and some time to get home back in order.  We are selling a couple of my rentals and also selling our home.  We have a condo under contract.  They call in downsizing.  I call it freedom. Pressure washing the bottom.   Two little cuties - They and their parents live aboard that boat. Little cuties playing in the mud Westerhall antique cane crusher Westerhall rum factory tour:  antique cane slicer Just a flower that caught my attention.

Re-visting Clifton, a cute little island with friendly people.  It has a bar on a man-made reef of conch shells in the harbor that can only be reached by dingy.  We drank too many rum punches, danced and made idiots of ourselves or at least I did. Approaching Happy Island Bar by dingy Happy Island Bar Drunk French Idiot Mildly drunk nephew Drunk and stupid Captain Barry  Capt. Barry and Nephew Rocky with even drunker French lady Internet fix Rocky surveying the Tobago Cays Rocky and Uncle Barry Tobago Cays Kids diving off the dock in Clifton 

We returned to Bequia in the Grenadines.  It is one of our favorite harbors.  They pick up laundry from the boat and also bring fuel and water to the boat.  Whale Boner Bar is here.  They have real whale bone for the bar, bar stools and entrance arch. Barry taking it easy Rasta child Canon on Ft. Duvernette Whale Boner Bar Rocky is serious