Explore Sailing Voyages in Saint Kitts and Nevis 🇰🇳

Left around 5:30pm to mild wind. Picked up ok after Antigua and rode a nice broad reach in ~10kts apparent most f the night once that settled in. Wind direction was forcing us into St Barts though and given the option to do a bunch of jibes, take the long way around east St Barts or motor, I took the latter. Did a slow cruise in to make the 9:30 bridge opening. Marina here is not as great as it seemed on the web.

One of the most frustrating nights of sailing to date. Winds were in a worse direction than predicted, directly from Antigua, and there was lightning in the area. Resulted in a lot of motoring slowly into the wind and waves just to get there. Had planned for English Harbor but rerouted to Jolly Harbor to get in before customs closed. Glad to have that one behind us. Had Livnat, Sarah and Chartrands on board.

Tight to the wind sail with a decent wind angle for Les Saintes which was the plan. Winds out of 70 degT. Rough sail with wind 17-20kt gusts to 28kts and seas at 8’ seas (much more in places). Made slow progress since we needed to stay reefed up for gusts but slow progress otherwise. Bailed and turned to Desahies since it was going to be a late arrival into the Saintes. Took a left turn and motored about 35nm

Curve around Nevis to st barths Evening passage . Spinnakerbag got thrown overboard during reef . See other log notes

Day 1 of race Crossed from Antigua to barbuda towards Nevis. Approx #11 out of 18 in IRC 2 category Took the helm at night Trimmer of spinnaker during squawl

Reflective moment at end outside of Guadeloupe . Wind died down and it was just a matter of waiting and adjusting the traveler etc: worked out with dinner so wasn’t the worst. We noticed a hole in the mainsail ane some tears around the seams of the headsail. Hopefully these don’t present any issues

vent arrière et vent de travers avec mer croisée entre les îles motor sail le long de l'île ça a pas trop mal été