Court Short

After a crossing from Bequia to Canouan that was reminiscent of our Atlantic crossing we spent a few days chilling out in the turquoise waters of Charlestown Bay and then moved on to Tobago Cays where we swam with turtles, stingrays and all manner of small fish. The reef is amazing and one of the […]

With a touch of trepidation we left Soufriere at 5.30am and set off for St Vincent (which amongst yachties has a bad reputation for petty theft).   As we approached St Vincent we were greeted with magnificent lush green forests.   A fabulous sight.  We made our way into Chateaubelaire and anchored.   James went ashore for customs […]

Well you know the saying "... but not a drop to drink.” Sadly not in our case, the water is drinking water leaking from a split pipe under the sink! We’d just moved across from Bat Cave in Soufriere to a mooring buoy under Petite Piton when the leak was noticed. Despite James’ best endeavours […]

Well we did it, we hired a car to explore the island - we took to the roads and hairpin bends of St Lucia!   Our little car struggled with the gradient, the buses overtook us but we managed to overhaul pedestrians – but we did have an unfair advantage – air conditioning!   It was a […]

Well you know the saying …… James is back in UK, so Claire and Gilly are playing!   We've climbed up to Rodney Fort on Pigeon Island, been snorkelling all over the bay using Puddle for the longer distance adventures!  We’ve wandered through the shopping mall at Rodney Bay, chatted to all the roadside stall holders […]

What an extraordinary evening. We teamed up with Paul from Sonic Boom and went ashore to Gros Islet to experience our first 'Jump Up'.   This is a weekly street party in the local part of Rodney Bay but this week was a special one as it was part of St Lucia’s Jazz & Arts Festival.   […]

If you want to eat out in style then Marigot Bay is the place to be!   What a treat to visit the Rainforest Hideaway for one of their Wednesday night jazz sessions.   Freebooter picked us up in their dinghy and we made a speedy passage to far side of the lagoon where the restaurant has […]

Having endured 30knot winds on the nose (i.e. from the southeast) to get down to Laborie – only to turn around again and go back to Soufriere because the swell in the bay would have been too uncomfortable for words – only a day later we found ourselves heading back up to Marigot Bay and […]

We sailed all of 2nm to Anse La Raye on Friday morning to make sure we were in a prime spot to get ashore for Fish Friday!   We needn’t have worried about over-crowding in the anchorage, it was Freebooter and ourselves.   Fish Friday is quite something and must be the biggest money earner for the […]

We were ashore in Marigot Bay admiring the scenery when our attention was caught by a flurry of activity at the dinghy dock – the locals had spotted a lion fish under the pontoon. It’s an exotic creature and we all crammed around to have a look. In the ‘scrum’ we got chatting to a Danish […]