We left St Lucia yesterday morning in light and variable winds till we were clear of land. We had a fairly strong west setting current once off shore of the Pitons, beam seas of maybe 3 -4 ft, and winds abeam at 18 gusting to 22. A great day to sail to St Vincent - we thought. As we moved along we had a bit sloppier conditions with a large steep long period swell crossing differently than the wind chop and the current moved more on the nose till we were just off St Vincent. The current turned to aiding for about an hour then back to the nose so we motor sailed to Buccament Bay. We had planned to stop here but there were no other boats in the anchorage and our rule on ST V is if no other boats then move on!
With current still on the nose we called Daffodil Marine and asked them to hold a mooring for us - expecting that we would arrive well after dark. We cleared ST V, the wind filled in to 18 gusting to 22 and we put every bit of canvas we had up and headed for Bequia. The gods definitely smiled on as as we picked up our mooring right after turning in from Devils Table about 10 minutes after sundown!
We slept very good last night!
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Bobby,
ReplyDeleteWhy the "no boat... move on" policy?
Safety in numbers?
St Vincent has been the scene of boardings and robberies over the past few years. Recommendation is to avoid lone anchorages, so we do, but made for a long day!
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