So curious on everyone’s thoughts of who was approaching our boat in the middle of nowhere… It was coming on 1 day and 15 hours at sea, around sunrise, when we were smack dab in the middle of Dominica and Martinique. I was on watch while Andrew went to sleep an hour before, and it was around 6:30am. We were in 8ft seas with 20-25 kts and just a reefed main out. I saw a small ~24ft panga parallel to us going the opposite way around 500 yards away. I didn’t think too much of it, but woke Andrew up from a weird gut feeling. We hadn’t seen any boats in the almost 2 days sail so was weird to suddenly see that small boat that close. After Andrew got up the panga made a 90 degree turn coming straight at us. It was so rough their bow was flying into the air and to us it made no sense why they were so far offshore. They got within 200 yards of us before they turned off back on their track. It was 2 guys and we assume they turned back because it was too rough to go dead into the waves. I got a short video of the boat.. what do you guys think?? We can’t figure out what in the world was going on, but all we know is it scared the shit out of us seeing them come at us & we felt like they were definitely a threat😳 oh, and this all happened the morning of Andrew’s birthday 😂 Anyway, the rest of the sail was totally fine, worse weather than forecasted but our first time in forever flyyyying and we reached our max speed ever at 10.1kts! So fun to finally have a beam reach and making our best time on a passage yet. Excited for the rest of the sail south 🤙🏼 Now that we’re close enough to Grenada and are able to have a quick sail down, we’re going to take our time exploring the next few islands on the way down.
Short trip over to St Barths before heading south to Guadeloupe. Not sure if we will be here for a night or 2 or a week, we’ll see what the weather does 🤷🏻♀️ Slooowly made our way around the northeast corner of SXM and finally got to that bean reach sail we have been waiting for forever. After around a year of moving dead into the wind it sure felt good having the best wind angle and actually going towards our destination. Celebrating Andrew’s birthday this weekend so might treat ourselves to the fine dining we’ve heard of in this fancy town 🇫🇷🎂
After ~6 months in the Virgin Islands it sure does feel good to make it to a new island!! Very uneventful sail, which is usually a good thing. Weather was as forecasted and had a long tack 20nm south and arrived in the exact amount of time we expected. Excited for the baguettes, cheese, & French wine!! 🇫🇷🥖🧀🍷oui oui
Left St John with the plan to stop in the BVI for a few days before crossing to SXM, but at the last second we decided we might have a good weather window to just sail straight to SXM that day. We got just past Virgin Gorda and the weather was worse than forecasted (~8ft seas and 20-25kts of wind) and at this point the sun had gone down, and somehow going straight into the rough seas our brand new dinghy got messed up in the davit and was looking like it was going to flip over. We decided to turn around and get on a mooring by the Baths to lower it and stay for the night. Now our plan is to wait for a better window on Thursday and hang in Virgin Gorda for a few days Sometimes it’s just better to turn around when things aren’t going as planned 🤷🏻♀️
Definitely didn’t come in first but we also didn’t come in last (close to it though) 😂 Chased bubbles all the way to Willy T and ready for a raft up party and maybe some Willy t tattoos! If you’re in the area come party with us 🤙🏼
First leg of the Chasing Bubbles regatta!! Started in the lead and ended way behind 😂 prioritized drone shots over winning but watch out for us on the way to Willy T today 👀 Fun downwind sail with some very hungover crew from the epic floatchella Challenges today were snorkel shots and someone off the back of the boat when we were crossing the finish line
