LinoCat

The amazing part about St.It was really crysta Barth was the water quality. It was really crystal clear, even at the anchorage right in front of Gustavia harbour. When i cleared in i immediately realized that i am in France. The keyboard layout is so strange and you can save your data, you have to always type it in from scratch. Even on the same PC when checking out. I really wonder if they store it at all or if the only use the printouts, since they even make a photocopy of it!!! For 2 nights at the anchorage using no mooring but our anchor they also charged 30 EUR. Right, that is 15 EUR per night. The good part is that the surrounding of the harbour is pretty nice. You have good dinghy docks and a place to properly throw away your garbage, etc. The stores around are fancy and expensive and so is the food. You caneasily pay 15 EUR for a pizza or 16EUR for a salad of tomato and mozzarella. The bakery behind the post office makes great bread, not only baguette but also wood oven baked b...

I got up at 3.45 and lifted anchor at 4 in the morning. Under radar i made my way through the anchoring yachts. It always amazes me that even in times of LED bulbs some folks still do not use their anchor lights at all during the night. Since the moon was already gone it was pitch dark and i used radar and a search light to find my way out. A few miles away i passed a buoy which was unlit but i could clearly see it on the radar and it reflected my searchlight even though it was still 0.3 miles away. There was almost no wind and the first 2 hours i just motored with one engine at 2200 rpm doing 5.4 knots. Then i pulled out the genoa in addition and now it is around 5.6 knots. The total distance is around 75 miles and du to the low wind forecast we decided to leave so early because St Barth is tricky to approach at night. Talking about St Barth, the name is actually St Barthelemy but that seems to be to long for everyone. It is not as high as some of the other islands because it is an ol...