Domenica to Guadeloupe

The met was inconclusive so we decided to go anyway. Chris visited a doctor about his ear Jamie and Alex did some school, we had lunch and got ready to go. While preparing to set sail we saw an extremely large turtle -- three times. Each time we called the kids who came roaring up from below (silently) but he’d already dived below. They got very fed up with us.

The sail to Guadeloupe was 31 miles and we did it in about 3.5 hours – the wind was strong but fortunately the waves weren’t too high. We saw fabulous rainbows over Les Saintes. We anchored outside of the marina at Basse Terre and Chris and Jamie dinghied over to a neighbouring boat to see if the strike was still on. According to the rather Eeyore/Marvin type who was sailing single-handed to the BVI with a failing engine and broken mainsail
it was. So we decided to start early next morning for Antigua. Great sunset.