Explore Sailing Voyages in Saint Kitts and Nevis 🇰🇳

Départ avec 2 ris en previsions du vent…. Traversée de Narrow sympa vent adonnant, puis… vent de face arrivé à Nevis, mer de plus en plus courte… vitesse à peine 2 noeuds. Demi tour pour Nevis…. Bouée et Clearence …. Tout simplement une horreur: 2 h 30 de paperasses administratives!!!! Charlestown sans interet ! Mais des gens gentils. Qq bars sympas sur la plage.

Départ de St Martin vent d’est soutenu 18/24 noeuds. Houle desordonnée (1m50), jusqu’aux parages de St Eustache. Prés avec un ris GV et Genois de 3 à 6 tours. Bonne vitesse 6/7 noeuds. Appui moteur tribord une partie du trajet. Passage du chenal assez long mais une mer assez plate. Rapidement du côté sous le vent, le vent est venu de face. Donc navigation aux moteurs pour rejoinder Friars Bay. Quelques grains mais qui sont passés plutôt à côté.

Mer belle vent de secteur Est établi dès la sortie des Kitts 13/14 nœuds jusqu’à 20 nœuds. Peu de houle, navigation travers à grand largue. Vitesse de 6 à 9.3 nœuds. Mouillage facile à Marigot.

Vent Est 15 / 20 nœuds au vent de Redonda. Navigation travers/ grand largue . Passage au vent de St Kitts . Joli 3 m de fond . Beau temps. Moteur pour la dernière demi-heure pour atteindre Sandy Bay.

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