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Smooth wind less motor. Last 5 miles sailed with 8-9knts of wind

Pleasant but spicy reach between islands. Up to 8 kts on up to 25 kts of wind.

Nice sail and motor across to the USVI. Close reach and motored around some squalls.

Sea trial for the new boat (still called Bluewater at this point). Winds about 20kts +/-5kts. Beam reach out with reefed main to top spreader and reefed Genoa to first mark. About 5’ seas. Marched along very nicely. Fell off to St Thomas harbor on a broad reach and opened up the Genoa and were hitting 10kts down waves. Nice.

Motored (with Ray Johnson) since the port lower aft shroud is off waiting for a replacement. Pity since it was a beautiful day. The path through “Current Cut” looked a little sketchy on charts but was fine depth and enough width.

Headed toward St Croix to get a sense of the heading we would hold to Grenada then looped around St John. Lovely sailing. With Ben and Brent.

5/18 : Good exit at ~3pm from St Thomas. Motored into the wind to the end of St Johns before turning southward toward Grenada under sail. 5/19 : Good night watch but several system problems. Furlers acting weak. Winches browning out nav. Fridge stopped cooling. Weird electrical smell we could not place (later we figured it out when the alternator reg caught fire at port). 5/20 : Winds up to 30kts and waves to about 3m. Anchor jumped the roller and we had to retrieve which was dicey. The boat likes big wind. Got the fridge working. 5/21 : Completed the arrival to St George Grenada at 441.2nm over 69 hours (6.4 kts average). Bow thruster battery was hosed and later the regulator for it caught fire in harbor. So no thrusters for docking but was ok. Brent and Ben were giddy after making like 9+ kts for a while on night watch.