Sunday, January 30, 2011
As in the night before, the wind died down in the early hours and all the boats were pointed in random directions in the morning. I was quite close to “Symphony II”, a large power yacht that had come in and anchored after me. But on another swing I got close to a mooring ball which had a small boat on it but before I could decide what to do I saw that they had dropped their mooring line and motored in to an empty mooring very close in to shore. I think that I’ll leave the anchorage today, either for Île Fourchue or for Gustavia and thence onwards, but that will depend upon getting in touch with Arita and seeing what their plans are. Somewhere around 10am I was below decks and sitting at the notebook when I caught a transmission for me from Arita on the VHF and responded. They confirmed that they had spent the night at Île Fourchue and I asked them when they’d come by at Colombier and Rob told me to look outside and I searched the far reaches of the anchorages looking for their distinctive boat before I realized that they were anchored within 50 feet of me (no wonder their transmission came through so clearly). We went ashore and wandered the path along the cliff sides for a while, then relaxed by the beach and the boats for a relaxing day. I had invited myself over for dinner as my propane was out and we ate the steak and hamburgers I had brought, plus finished off a bottle of bubbly, some Bordeaux and finished off the evening with a bottle of Sauternes that I had acquired in St. Martin the week before for that exact purpose. I played a couple of rounds of Dominos for the first time in my life that night, and found that even I could remember the rules.
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