After the birthday celebrations, its time to head north.  Today’s sail was perfect.

The wind and seas in the channel are typically greater than those in the lee of the island.  The channel from the Saintes to Guadeloupe is only 10 miles, then we have another 15 to get to Dehais at the north end of the island. Luckily on this day, the seas were flat but the wind stayed with us and we zinged along.  We even had a glimpse of 10 kts.

We were buddy boating with Orion and had the opportunity to take pictures of each other.

Thanks to the crew on Orion, Nancy, Anita, Kyle, Jacob, Savannah, and Shane for the great pictures.

Half way up Guadeloupe is the Pigeon Island anchorage with my favorite grocery stop.  Savannah and Shane wanted to come with us for the rest of the trip, so we prepared for them to jump ship.

With fenders out, Makai and Orion came close enough for the kids to transfer.

I wasn’t worried for the kids as much as the boats bumping each other.

Now that we captured Orion’s youngest crew members, we could head off to the grocery store while Orion continues on to Dehais.

 

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The beauty of shopping at the Pigeon Island Anchorage is that I can push the shopping cart right up to the dinghy.  After doing a little math, we figured how much noodles, sauce, flour, milk, coke and juice we needed to get us through to Miami.  I’m very happy to be finished lugging those heavy items.  The girls helped me push this heavy, overflowing shopping cart to the dinghy, then they took it back to Makai while I loaded up at the second store.

The last hour to Dehais, all the kids took turns at the helm.  Our track looked a bit like a zig zag stitch, but everyone had fun driving Makai.

After one night in Dehais, we’re off, heading for Antigua.  The morning we left Dehais, Guadeloupe was like rush hour on CA-405 North.  At 7am, anchors were raising, mainsails were hoisting and boats were coming and going.  Dehais is the northern most anchorage on Guadeloupe and a perfect departure point to head to Antigua.

The trades were blowing their usual 20-25kts, with a reef in the main, Makai can do 8-9kts comfortably.  The traffic was heavy with boats of all sizes and shapes all around us on the same course.

As always, Roy was posted on a sugar scoop waiting to catch a sea monster.  He spends all of his free time searching for new lures and crimping together rigs.

There’s always an adrenaline rush when he says “I got something”.   I think it’s Mam coś in Polish, and I have to say pokaż mi, “show me”.  These are our fishing with Jim and Ania in Canada words.

Today it was a small tuna.  Experienced fishermen would not have kept it, but Roy said if it was stupid enough to bite, we should eat it.

Roy got out the cutting board and fillet knife, within minutes we had dinner chilling in a ziplock in the refrigerator.

Here we are in beautiful Antigua.  Mega yachts everywhere and occasional cruise ships. This one is the Maltese Falcon.  The bay is also getting ready for the Caribbean 600 yacht race. Every day we watch the race boats come and go.