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Martinique to Marigot Bay (St Lucia)

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Mike and Uli arrived the 27th and i picked them up from the airport. The plane was only 25 minutes late and i knew this from the internet. The flight had an "on time rating" of 0.5 on a scale from 0 to 5 where 5 is the best :-) So chances were fairly low that it was on time. We drove to the marina Le Marin in the south of Martinique and had some beer and then went to bed. The next morning we had breakfast, cleared out of customs and paid only 43 Euro for the marina stay and water. Peter and Tina visited us and we left the marina at around 10.30 in direction south. We had a reef in the main sail and the crossing was nice. We did between 6 and 7 knots but caught no fish. Passing the Rodney Bay marina the Club Med 2 was just leaving the bay. It is a huge cruise ship but also has some sails on top of it. At 16.30 the anchor fell in Marigot Bay on the left side of the channel in the outer lagoon. Until then a few boat boys had approached us offering mooring buoys for 40USD which i