The Clock is Ticking – Charlestown, Nevis, April 21, 2023

Sailing Hubby finished his rigging project while we rested in Marigot Bay, St. Martin.  Even though he is diligent in inspecting our rigging and I also keep an eye on it when I clean the stainless on the boat, it had been over a year since we had had an official inspection.  St. Martin is the cruising capitol of the Caribbean, and we had a rare opportunity to get access to some top-notch riggers.  We were lucky enough to be able to get an appointment with one of these such riggers, and had them come to take a look.

This included them reviewing all our running rigging, Ron’s new re-rig of the main sail to be operated from the helm and take a run up the mast.  This is a job Ron hates to do and was well worth the money to have done.  Good news is they didn’t find any major issues even after the rough sailing we through the thorny path.

As much as we had enjoyed the people and food of St. Martin, the clock is ticking for us to get south before hurricane season begins. Our haul out date is mid June and we would like to be to Grenada well before this time. In an effort to make our next jump shorter we took a quick 4-hour day sail over to St. Barth’s. And let me tell you as we passed the Rolex store on our way to customs that it is every bit as high class as its reputation implies. There was a lot of money sitting in the harbor between the racing and mega yachts.

And then after paying $9 per beer, we had dinner on the boat and left the next morning to make out way to Nevis, the southern island for St. Kitt’s. It’s a beautiful volcano and a clean little town. We got in a bit of trouble for docking the dinghy at the four seasons dock but had a great dinner at a little place down the street, Zanzi. The $2 beers there with vegetarian options were more our style.