LIFE: Part 2

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Current Location: CarriacouCurrent Position: 12 27.35 N 061 29.54 W Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 415 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereThis COVID thing makes planning very difficult. And since we need a new PCR test each time we move, we are thinking the best strategy for the coming winter is to do one long sail to the Bahamas, and then just stay there. No fixed plans yet, but we are thinking along those lines and may well depart on the 900 n. mile voyage in the near future.   When we do, this blog will be updated by satellite, complete with our current position. But first we will have to sail back south to Grenada to get our tests done, then we apply for the health visa to enter Bahamas, and THEN we depart. So it won’t happen tomorrow. Will keep you informed.

After being in Canada since March, we were anxious to come and check out Life Part.  Air Canada cancelled all of their few flights they had available to Grenada during September, and no other airlines were coming in either. Mid-September we booked for Oct 4th / 2020. Many visits to the Grenada Government site online (Click to Read More...)

We left the boat in good hands in St Maarten, on a mooring ball in Simpsons Lagoon, French side. The trip to Canada Through Miami was fine. We arrived at empty airports with employees cleaning everything and every chair. The TV’ was all about the Coronavirus. The world had come to STOP. Everything shut down (Click to Read More...)

Current Location: 18.306854461218883, -65.29860730419921Current Position: 18 18.41 N 065 17.92 W Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 126 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereFlying into St. Maarten early Feb 2020 The first thing to do was clean the bottom of the boat. We motored (Click to Read More...)

We arrived in Canada in early December 2019, after leaving the boat in St Maarteen. The ski hills were already open and we got an early start. We celebrated December Birthdays. Noel’s and our grandson Tiago’s.   1   It was the night before Christmas… I think my (Click to Read More...)

Current Location: 18.057599168193846, -63.11244216464844Current Position: 18 3.46 N 063 6.75 W Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 129 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereWow…time to catch up where we left off last November 2019. In October we joined Life Part 2 in Trinidad where we had left it (Click to Read More...)

Boiling Lake, Dominica       One of the toughest and most famous hikes in Dominica is to the Boiling Lake. We had done this hike ten years ago, but we knew we had to include it again on our pass through the island. We love (Click to Read More...)

Current Location: Deshaies, GuadeloupeCurrent Position: 16 18.65 N 061 47.38 W Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 206 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereJune 1st. It was nine years ago, today, that Ceu and I flew out from Vancouver to here, British Virgin Islands (BVI) to pick up (Click to Read More...)

This year we did a mad dash all the way up from Trinidad to BVI, and now we are heading back down to Trinidad.  That’s about 450 nautical miles each way. We covered a lot of islands, a lot of beaches, and saw a lot of fish. We even caught a few! And we have (Click to Read More...)

Current Location: Guana Island, British Virgin IslandsCurrent Position: 18 28.41 N 064 34.61 W Click to view map. Distance sailed since last post: 421 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereIt is time for s/y Ventus to have new rigging. So our friend Nick asked me if, starting from stainless rigging, I (Click to Read More...)