Voyages

Position Report – Portsmouth, Dominica

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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POSITION REPORT – Roseau, Dominica

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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Martinique…..

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

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POSITION REPORT – St. Pierre, Martinique

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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POSITION REPORT – Fort-du-France, Martinique

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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POSITION REPORT – Grande Anse, Martinique

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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POSITION REPORT – Marin Harbor, St. Anne – Martinique

YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2014/02/17 19:48 LATITUDE: 14-28.01N LONGITUDE: 060-52.02W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 10 WIND_DIR: NE CLOUDS: 70% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1011.7 AIR_TEMP: 28.9C COMMENT: Beach House – MOORED – Marin Harbor, St. Anne – Martinique We arrived around 1500 after a lovely sail from Rodney Bay….\”Tres Francaise\”!… Checked in via computer!, got the lay of

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St. Lucia…..

February 9th-17th, 2014 (-4 on UTC) Dear F&F, We departed Chateaubelair, the northern most anchorage of St. Vincent for the VERY BLUSTERY 25 mile sail to St. Lucia. We actually had two reefs up for the first half of our very close reach. The Caribbean continues to be a bit of a boaters freeway as

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POSITION REPORT – Rodney Bay, St. Lucia

YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2014/02/11 17:28 LATITUDE: 14-04.58N LONGITUDE: 060-56.91W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 10 WIND_DIR: ENE CLOUDS: 90% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1012.8 AIR_TEMP: 28.3C COMMENT: Beach House – DOCKED – Rodney Bay, St. Lucia Marigot Bay was nice for a day and a night, but we decided to move to the north end of the island

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POSITION REPORT – Marigot Bay, Inner Harbor – St. Lucia

YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2014/02/10 15:37 LATITUDE: 13-57.96N LONGITUDE: 061-01.47W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 10 WIND_DIR: ENE CLOUDS: 40% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1013.4 AIR_TEMP: 31.1C COMMENT: Beach House – MOORED – Marigot Bay, Inner Harbor – St. Lucia We were enjoying our anchorage yesterday despite the \”party hard\” boats. The scenery lovely. In town, a bit of

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