Category: sailing

Rodney Bay, St Lucia

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We explore Rodney Bay where all the 300 ARC boats eventually will gather one after the other when they arrive after the Atlantic crossing.

The Fruit boat is dressed in palm leafs.

We buy gigantic avocados, papaya, sweet grapefruit and a coconut from The Fruit Boat!

Sara has drilled the coconut and enjoy with a McDonalds straw.
The ARC bus tour to explore the northern part of St Lucia
Greeeeen Island with impressive rain forest. Wild houses in a distance.
Not all sailboats make it. Only the rig above the surface!

Arrival in St Lucia. We sailed across the Atlantic in only 12 days!

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Björn, Mats, Sara and Louise Warnqvist arrives in St Lucia, Caribbean 3 Dec 2018 ARC+

We where greeted with Fruit and Rum punch from the ARC team when we arrived just after sunset Monday evening the 3 December. It took us 6,5 days from Las Palmas to Cape Verde and another 12 days to cross the Atlantic.

10 knot Speed Over Ground
Sailing Mon Ami across the Atlantic have been fantastic!

Leg 2 Cape Verde to St Lucia, 12 days at sea.

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Land O’hoy!

We will reach St Lucia today and have crossed the Atlantic Ocean!

Now we have only 35 Nm to go and we see St Lucia in a distance.

We have some problem with the main boom. There is a big play in the joint between the boom and the mast. Maybe a result of the broken rod kick or the sheets and preventer twisting the boom? We need to get hold of a rigging company in St Lucia.

Yesterday we tried the fish gear we got as a gift from the US catamaran Starship Friendship. It was quick. After some problem catching Sargasso weed we got it right. First we caught first a Barracuda (we thru it back) and then a 8 kg Mahi-Mahi. Nice fish filets for dinner. We used just a reef on a rubber band. Blue and white Squid type of hook. We gave is a sip of cheap Vodka before we put the knife in it.

Now we have started the cockpit fridge and put some Cava and beer on the cold for this evening.

Probably we pass the Finish line at sun set and find our berth in Rodney Bay Marina in the dark this evening. We look forward to getting the boat stable as we are all tired of the rock and roll!

Now I will go locking for my red trousers I got from Sara on Fathers Day

/Mats