![]() Mornings are for coffee and contemplation. The anchorage from a nice lookout: The Anchorage from a nice lookout We put in and dropped hook at Sainte-Anne followed by a tour of the town and an evening dinner. Yay! I didn’t really give the chart plotter beeping incident much thought that day because we were consumed with the sailing fun but, every now and then I’d glance at the Raymarine and wonder. I wished him well and finally nodded off to sleep amid the beeping never knowing how long he stayed up doing that. Poor guy was manually slogging in his route waypoint by waypoint (lat/lon) at a time… beep, beep, beep. That MFD was a Raymarine eSeries with hybrid touch and the rotary Unicontroller. That’s where the beeping was coming from.Ĭuriosity finally got the better of me and I went up to find my buddy hunched over the chart plotter. Well, my wife and I got the Starboard hull, Aft berth in a coin toss, which is directly beneath the helm station. What the heck was that, I thought groggily. It was some time around 11pm when I heard movement up on deck accompanied by an asynchronous beeping sound. Our plan was to head out early AM for crossing St Lucia Channel up to Martinique so we turned in (most of us) shortly after dinner. The food was pretty good, the mixed drinks were strong enough, and the view was pleasant. Rodney Bay Marina has a nice group of restaurants and we did Bosun’s Thai One On upstairs. It took a couple hours to get gear and provisions properly stowed (and the obligatory sun downer) before we were ready for dinner. As a result, we hurried the work of hauling our luggage and food onto the dock so we could do the boat briefing. The marina had the boat ready by the time we returned with cart loads of food. After that we all piled in another taxi-van and headed over to Super J for provisioning. Check-in and chart briefing were early morning. The first full day was all about getting ready. Flights, layovers, and taxi rides would get us in too late to check in, brief, provision, and take the boat so we planned the 1st night at the Palm Haven Hotel, half a block from the Marina entrance. It’s an hour and a half ride in a taxi-van to get to Castries and Rodney Bay Marina in the far Northwest corner of the island. We planned the trip well in advance and he had our route on paper and in the Garmin.įlights out of DFW airport route through Miami (crack of dawn) then on to Hewanorra International Airport at Vieux Fort (UVF) which is in the South side of St Lucia. Those, a hand held Garmin Marine GPS, some spreadsheets, his mobile phone and he’s ready to roll. My buddy is a traditional sailor and grew up on paper charts.
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