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February
22nd. Salty Shores was ready to sail to St. Lucia, so we
started our way at 6:30 in the morning. It was blowing 16-17 knots
Northeast and the beautiful main sail and the genoa were showing off
between flying fishes and birds.
This
passage is known to be very rough right between Martinique and St.
Lucia. A few days earlier I was telling our friend Louie from
Newport, NC, that I couldn't wait to see him turn yellow and green
when he comes to sail with us, maybe not very nice of me. But in fact
I'm the one who travels outside down all the time; and the
seasickness medicine makes me sleepy, so when I'm not puking, I'm
immerse in my dizzy land.
We
were expecting a nice Mahi-mahi, but not even a hint of good luck
with that this time.
We
got to St. Lucia at 11:00 am, actually we did a very good time. Jim
called Rodney Bay Marina on the VHF to make a reservation and went
straight ahead to the fuel dock to fill up the tank, making sure that
it was filtered before. I guess the dirty fuel we had before had him
a little traumatized. The fuel boy gave Jim a look of disapproving,
until he told him our episode changing filters a few days ago and
gave him a tip to keep him happy. “It's not that I got that diesel
here, It's that I am a little paranoid about it”. He finally said.
A
few minutes later we were docked in a very nice marina, with
unlimited water, nice hot showers, good restaurants, free internet...
Yey! Good to power up and continue the trip.
After
we checked in the marina and customs and immigration, we had lunch at
an Italian caffé called
Elena's. They have a good pizza chef, with a stone oven and a great
repertory of Italian songs that he sings while he is making the
dough. He doesn't speak any English, but his pizzas are too good to
be truth. That was plenty of stimulation to get brushes, rags and
hoses and clean nicely our sailing home.
AnechyNotes
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