LinoCat

We woke up at 06.15 and decided to have breakfast at the anchorage. So at around 7 we brought the anchor up and set sail to Antigua. The wind grib files said the wind should be around 20 knots in the beginning and then slow down a bit. So we started with a reef in the mainsail and did around 7.5 knots of speed over ground. At around 09:00 i took the reef out and we are now udner full sails doing 7 knots since the wind already eased to aroun 15 knots but with a convienent 90 degrees angle. The waved are around 1.5 to 2m and are coming from a 45 degree angle to the main wind direction of the last days. So far conditions are as they were predicted. It is now 09:02 local time and we have around 3.5hours to go (28miles). The sun is shining and so the solar panels are producing power but it is to bumpy to let the watermaker run. I am always afraid that it might suck in air and cause problems so i do not switch it on if it is to rough. We still have around 2x200liter of water in our tanks. Cu...

This is Deshaies when you start walking up to the botanical garden. It is only 1.5km but up hill and it took us roughly 30minutes to walk up. LinoCat is still anchored in the bay! GOOD :-) Lori parrots. They have a vending machine for food and the Loris just fly up to you and eat the food. Lani liked it a lot. The garden itself was very beautiful with plenty of flowers, waterfalls and other things to watch. Our mums would have enjoyed it here! These are little bananas. OUTCH Some goats. How many can you find on this picture ? ;-) They were not at all shy and then bit on your trouser, tshirt, even the handle of the camera. MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU YOUNG YEDI!!!

After our unsuccesful visit to Piegeon island we continued to Deshaies and arrived there around 1600. Mayn boats were anchored here because they either arrive from Antigua or Montserrat or they jump to these islands from here (like LinoCat). There is a "SPAR" supermarket here in town in walking distance and around 50m up a small river behind the fishing harbour you can also exit the dinghy easily and leave it there. The water of the river (called Deshaies) is not very clear and so the water of the aby is also not the nicest. When diving for our anchor i could not see it at all even though it is only 6 m deep! It was raining cats and dogs since we arrived even through the night. This morning the sun came out and my first duty was to swim over to another catamaran with 3 older people on board and help them to get the anchor up manually. They had brough out two anchors and the chains were one over the other. After that we had breakfast and if the weather continues to be OK we mi...

This catamaran seems to have had a problem near the coast of Guadeloupe. It looks like a DIX design but i could not find anything about this incident on the internet. Anyone has any clue?