Guadeloupe to Antigua

We left Deshaies, Guadeloupe this morning at 0600 headed for Antigua. Forecast conditions were winds 18g21kts and seas of 2.2 meters. We set full jib and main and intended to cruise right on over here - along the way the winds started gusting to 24kts and the seas were running about 3 meters. Reefed the main and came right on over anyway. Lumpy and bumpy but the new head sail (110 Yankee cut) is a major improvement on this boat.

Just before we arrived at the entrance to Falmouth Harbor we noticed a black inflatable with some legs hanging over one side - furled the jib and headed over to investigate just in case. Turned out to be two people drift fishing (sleepin?, shaggin?, whatin?). We asked them if they were OK and they gave us the high sign and we headed on in.

Just as we started up toward big boat marina we noticed the Maltese Falcon tied up. Took a couple of photos and will get one of the stern in the morning then upload - a really awesome boat.

The 289 foot (88m) Maltese Falcon is the largest private sailboat in the world. The yacht originally owned by Tom Perkins (American Venture Capitalist and formerly of HP) was recently sold to Elena Ambrosiadou for $120 million US dollars. Perkins did have the boat on the market for $165 million so she got it for a steal. Ambrosiadou is better known for setting up one of the most successful hedge funds in the world, and was Britain’s highest paid female executive before
moving her company to Cyprus in 2006.