Jan 2018

Jan 2018 · 20. January 2018

Are we sailing a toy boat?

I looked up to the top of our mast. It didn’t even reach up to the first spreader on the superyacht docked next to Papagayo. The boom was almost as big as our entire boat. I felt as if I was sitting on a toy boat. It was a late Saturday afternoon and we had decided to come down to Marigot Bay for the evening. A relaxing sail, a bite to eat, some rest and a sail back the following morning. The sail down was indeed relaxing, a comfortable beam reach along the coast of St Lucia as the sun was...

Auspicious Beginnings

I had no idea where I was going to be heading into 2018. As per usual my friends and I had left it to the last minute to organise any festivities for the New Year celebration. Something would come up, after all this is St Lucia and there was always a party to be had somewhere. So at lunchtime on the 31st when it was mentioned that someone had met a young Russian skipper who was moored out in Rodney Bay on a luxurious 60 foot catamaran and he wanted some people to party with we felt it only...