Slow & Hot

We continue to wait out hurricane season in Grenada, shifting anchorages once a week to change the scenery. It does afford a great opportunity to get ahead in the kids schooling, tackle a bunch of boat projects and read, so no complaints. Many cruisers are starting to return and everyone is beginning to feel the itch to be on the move. We are planning on the end of the month, as long as the tropical weather systems remain benign, to start moving north among the islands.

Isabelle has decided to give swimming without her life jacket a shot the last two days. We always let the kids decide when they are comfortable on these type of things. She is doing very well, a natural really, so I suspect she will be off and going pretty quickly.

An unfortunate story, but last week a Hallberg Rassy 53 (so about 13 feet longer than us but otherwise very similar to our boat) went up onto a reef here in southern Grenada. They were on the reef for about 4 hours give or take waiting for the tide (which is not much down here) to give them a little more water. While we did not see it, apparently they used halyards off the top of the mast tied to anchors to heel the boat and provide the leverage to pull her off at high tide. The damage did not sound terrible, maybe a loose keel bolt or two and some damage to the rudder. The boat was anchored next to us and left about 4 in the afternoon, I thought naturally making the run towards Trinidad. Instead they moved about 5 miles along the coast. At that time the sun is to low to see the reefs in the water.

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