Just said farewell to Neil and Sue, we really enjoyed having them -  just got them trained up and they went home!.  They had a pretty varied time what with whales, dolphins and their final night.  Ah yes the final night – started off with a rainy day by far the wettest of our stay so far. It didn’t stop us going out for a good final meal in a beach bar but the monsoon wasn’t very ‘Caribbean’  nor was climbing back on the boat in foul weather gear, still all part of life’s rich pageant.  However at 0400 it happened again – another bloody great bang and a German yacht had dragged his anchor and drifted down onto us this time.  We ended up with both yachts alongside each other for a while, as we wondered what on earth to do, as he had clearly fouled our anchor line in the process.  In the end we got him to let out more cable and drift astern until daylight.  Once the sun was up we got ourselves untangled.  It says a hell of a lot for our anchor which was holding the combined weight of two 42 ft boats in gusts of up to 20 knots for several hours (Troutbridge should I start a new thread??!!).   But not a lot for the German owner who didn’t apologise once even though he admitted that he had not set the anchor or dived to check it.  Luckily once again no damage was done, but Fi and I are wondering if we are fated.  Still as you can see we did get the emergency dinghy out for a paddle and spent a happy afternoon going around in circles.  Stuck in a marina at the mo as they are forecasting ‘unprecedented northerly swells’ caused by a depression in the Atlantic.  I suspect that, like most forecasts round here, it won’t actually happen, or if it does the timing will be all wrong, but as even the waitress in the café knew about it we decided to be on the safe side.  Once things settle down its off to St Lucia and our first stop is the café on Pigeon Island as Fi has her eyes on the biggest book swap we have seen so far I have mine on the cheapest rum punches we have seen so far!!  Oh and I can check out our new fishing lure – Marlins watch out!!

Larry and Fi

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