First dive and first eye patch! Let’s hope the two are not connected! Steve’s a dive instructor and thanks to his expert tuition I had a very successful first dive in Bequia . It wasn’t very deep and the visibility was very poor but the feeling of drifting along the bottom of the reef without […]
What can one say? It was a wonderful day with only one ingredient missing – our families. However, the Freebooter/Ocean Rainbow combination is a very special one and we have had a truly memorable Christmas. We attended the Midnight Service at St Mary’s and then on Christmas Day, Freebooter joined us for our own special […]
Ocean Rainbow started the day ‘dressed overall’, including the best flag of all: 9th/12th Royal Lancers Regimental one! Other yachts in the anchorage were also ‘dressed overall’ but we feel the first prize really should go to our nearest neighbour - a Swiss yacht. They seem to have used a month’s worth of washing to […]
A year ago we set sail from Mindelo to cross the Atlantic; today we are securely anchored in Princess Margaret's Bay, Bequia and preparing to spend our second Christmas on board Ocean Rainbow. Bequia is one of the Windward Islands, full of colour and lovely people. There is also a wonderful reef for some amazing […]
The restaurant opened and dinner was delicious. If the culinary standard is maintained Calm Waters won’t take long to establish itself as one of the Caribbean’s ‘must stop’ places for foodies. We had a great evening with Clive and Ju (Sephina) and the staff looked after us really well, even singing Happy Birthday when the […]
We were up at 3.30am this morning to catch the bus at 4am to get to the 4th morning of 9 Mornings! This is St Vincent’s unique celebration in the run up to Christmas – who in their right mind gets up at 3am to party in the town square from 4-6.30am for the 9 […]
Finally we are catching up with ourselves – we have even marked our completely new location on the island of St Vincent on our Google map! We had a lovely sail here and are on a buoy in splendid isolation. Blue Lagoon is a tranquil spot on the south coast but there’s precious little sand […]
You couldn’t make it up if you tried! The evening started innocently enough with a rum punch at Tim’s Bollhead Bar. However, on returning to OR James, being the chivalrous skipper, was last to jump into Puddle but had a slight miscalculation … one pair of wet shorts. Just as we were setting up for […]
After Ishtar’s arrival at Ashton Bay we decided to mount a joint beach BBQ to Lonely Palm Island. James prepared the site in true boy scout fashion, collecting a huge pile of wood! Ishtar, Freebooter (less Steve) and Ocean Rainbow congregated on the deserted island – real Robinson Crusoe stuff! With the help of Ishtar’s […]
It should be the title of a book! If Ocean Rainbow is a party boat then so too is Merlyn III – anchored close to each other, we started with sundowners on OR followed by a sumptuous dinner on MIII – four courses! The next day we mounted an expedition to Baradal to seek out […]