YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2014/03/03 15:26 LATITUDE: 16-10.11N LONGITUDE: 061-46.66W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: WSW CLOUDS: 70% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1013.7 AIR_TEMP: 28.9C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Pidgeon Island, Guadeloupe (Cousteau Dive Reserve). We\’re actually directly east of the Pidgeon Island dive park. There seems to be no name for this bay? Pointe […]
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2014/03/02 18:52 LATITUDE: 15-58.82N LONGITUDE: 061-42.99W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 15 WIND_DIR: SSE CLOUDS: 50% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1011.1 AIR_TEMP: 32.2C COMMENT: Beach House – MOORED – Just south of Marina de Rivere Sens, Guadaloupe It\’s Sunday, we needed some gasoline for the dinghy and this is the only place to get it
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2014/02/28 19:45 LATITUDE: 15-51.97N LONGITUDE: 061-35.45W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 18 WIND_DIR: ENE CLOUDS: 50% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1013.1 AIR_TEMP: 30.6C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Iles Les Sainte, Guadeloupe A blustery sail. Started with full main and genoa and went to one reef and staysail! Came through the narrow Passe des
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February 23rd – 28th, 2014 (-4 on UTC) Dear F&F, Yet again, we had a lovely 32 mile sail on a close (just forward of the beam) reach to the island of Rainbow\’s and Rivers – Dominica. The French call it Dominique. Dominica was formerly French, now independent. Interestingly, English is far more spoken than
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2014/02/26 17:39 LATITUDE: 15-34.86N LONGITUDE: 061-27.75W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 10 WIND_DIR: ENE CLOUDS: 90% VISIBILITY: 25 BARO: 1011.5 AIR_TEMP: 29.4C COMMENT: Beach House – MOORED – Portsmouth, Dominica; Next to Switch #4, \”Lady Amelie\”…. We had a nice hike to the 60 meter (180 foot) waterfall yesterday at Middleham. We went with
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2014/02/23 21:02 LATITUDE: 15-17.44N LONGITUDE: 061-22.82W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 10 WIND_DIR: ENE CLOUDS: 70% VISIBILITY: 30 BARO: 1012.9 AIR_TEMP: 31.1C COMMENT: Beach House – MOORED – Roseau, Dominique We got a late start as we weren\’t sure if we were going to stay one more night in Martinique. On a whim, Nikki
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February 17th – 23rd, 2014 (-4 on UTC) Dear F&F, Yet another blustery 25 mile sail was at hand! A close reach with reefed main and (mostly) genoa. Martinique would be our first French island of the season as well. We pulled into Marin Bay at the southwest side of the island and picked up
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2014/02/22 20:21 LATITUDE: 14-44.59N LONGITUDE: 061-10.63W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 10 WIND_DIR: ENE CLOUDS: 60% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1011.9 AIR_TEMP: 30.6C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – St. Pierre, Martinique Lots of boats here. We\’ve checked out and will head to Rosseau, Dominque either tomorrow or Monday. This city was completely destroyed in
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2014/02/20 15:27 LATITUDE: 14-35.93N LONGITUDE: 061-04.13W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 20 WIND_DIR: ENE CLOUDS: 65% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1014.4 AIR_TEMP: 28.3C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Fort-du-France, Martinique A very blustry crossing of the bay, lots of rain last night. We\’ve move here to check into a hire car (It\’s the Capitol!)
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2014/02/19 21:12 LATITUDE: 14-30.23N LONGITUDE: 061-05.41W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 17 WIND_DIR: ENE CLOUDS: 70% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1011.6 AIR_TEMP: 30.0C COMMENT: Beach House – MOORED – Grande Anse, Martinique We were en route to Fort-du-France and stopped here as it was getting dark. LOTS of boats, perhaps 75, but the new moorings
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