Today was spent sailing from the BVI to St. Martin.
I had set the alarm for 03:00 but woke up around 00:30 and decided I might as well get underway since the conditions in the weather forecast never really matched those in reality. The conditions seemed nice, with a waning almost full moon and few scattered clouds the wind in the North Sound was light so I motored out of the channel and past Neckar and Prickly Pear islands to find that the seas were as predicted, 1.5 meters or so in a long swell which only had me slamming a couple of waves every 10 or so minutes. But the wind, despite being only 10 knots, was right on the nose of the boat so I didn’t bother putting up a sail (it would just flap around all night) and motored to St. Martin doing about 6.5 knots according to the GPS on average. It was a 13 hour trip, my fastest ever and also the longest continuous time that I’d run the engine without any sails up!
I chilled a bit on board after arriving and then proceeded to go ashore for a bit of food. It was still early so I headed into Calmos Café and had two of their Tapas (Goat cheese mousse with toasted baguette bread, Beef skewers) and remember why I like going to France so much! The band started up for some Reggae entertainment but I was still tired from the passage (despite having napped a large part of it) so I headed back to the boat.
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