Etikett: English
-
Martinique stop over
Trinidad will not open its border in time for us to leave the Caribbean before the hurricane season intensifies in August. As a result, we decided to haul out the boat at Grenada which has just opened its border. We have chosen to split the route from Sint-Maarten down to Grenada and the first stop…
-
100 years of Caribbean hurricanes
The Corona pandemic has caused us to stay with the boat in the Caribbean during the hurricane season. In this post, I have compiled some information about Caribbean hurricanes and storms. We have done this to get an idea of how common hurricanes are, where they go and what effects to expect.
-
Repairs on Sint-Maarten
We have planned to repair the furling mechanism in the mast since before the pandemic and now it’s finally time. The rig will be repaired by FKG so we have moved Sally to their jetty. We also managed to get the missing RO membrane for the watermaker. Watermaker Our watermaker has started to produce water…
-
Repatriation from Sint-Maarten
After many ups and downs with airlines, authorities, and suppliers, it is finally clear that we can sail to Sint-Maarten. From time to time we have planned that Sofia and her family need to stay on the boat until we get out of the hurricane area, even consider crossing the Atlantic back to Europe. It…
-
Antigua again
We wished we could stay longer on Barbuda, but smelling baby diapers and the need to arrange the flight to Sweden meant that we needed to be back to civilization and the internet. We choose to sail to English Harbor to get close to a grocery store with the hope that there would be fewer…
Sailing Sally 