Month: December 2004

On the 23rd, an airline delay meant that we spent 8 hours in or near the airport in Vieux Fort, St. Lucia awaiting our parents’ arrival. Finally, they came in around 10 pm. We gathered their luggage, got fleeced by a taxi driver, and rowed back to the boat at its windy and rolly anchorage. […]

We felt good about our anchorage in Rodney Bay, on the northwest coast of St. Lucia, as there were many yachts, beautiful beaches, and no shortage of bars within eyesight of our boat. A constant, brisk wind also charged our batteries beautifully in the absence of our engine. Of course, the gravy train pulled out […]

Our stay in Martinique yielded several of the young voyage’s high points. Despite the lingua-francois, we were able to learn the streets of Fort de France, journey overland to the old capital at Sainte Pierre, and meet some Norwegians before a pleasant passage south to the island of St. Lucia. Fort de France blends Caribbean […]

Judge not too harshly the two men who have remained incommunicado for the past several days; ’twas circumstance, not choice that stole our pen and turned our eyes to more pressing matters. But the storm has ebbed, and now we shall lay forth our recent history, hopefully seeking your satisfaction. We left Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe on […]

We rose early on Monday and managed to get under the north bridge over the Riviere Salee. However, our problems weren’t over as daylight was still two hours away, leaving us 30 minutes to pick our way through the dark river to the south bridge for its single opening de jour. A multitude of inlets […]