On our way

After a few days at the islands chilling and doing a few jobs we headed back to Chagaramas to fix the stern gland that wasn't right and top up our stores, pick up visas and most importantly stock up with duty free liquor available from Cruise Inn Marina. With Sunflower loaded to the gills with wine for the wedding and enough beer for "hopefully" a couple of months we were out of there hopefully for the last time. All was well with the new stern gland packing which was a relief. Once clear of Trinidad we were heading for Carriacou just over 100 miles. True wind of 15-20 knots right on the nose, something we haven't had for a long time but the seas were pretty good and we were doing 6 knots ploughing through with 2 reefs. We could see sheet lightning ahead for most of the night and then just after midnight we found it with lots of squalls, a couple punching just over 30 knots with rain so needless to say it was a long night for me. We had a new Benetau the same size as us right alongside us for the night which made it fun. He would gain and get ahead when the breeze eased and we would gain ours back when the breeze was up once so close I could shine our torch on his sails, Sunflower performed well for sure and we covered 110nm in 19 hours was good fun although a little shitty at the end. We arrived in Tryell Bay at daylight and was shocked to see at least 100 other yachts here! Welcome to the Caribbean :( nice secure bay though as the weather is shit for the next few days. Yesterday lots of excitement with a squall of 40 knots. We anchored on the outside away from the chaos but there were others crammed inside, boats dragging people in dinghys driving them like tugs fending of other yachts in the pooring rain, it was bloody stressful just watching. Our 33kg Rocna held well.

Sunday night we also saw some really nice blues music! Something we haven't been able to watch for a long while. Really good 3 piece playing old blues covers was great fun and ended up a fairly boozy night with a few interesting characters about. 

Now it's just waiting for the weather to settle down and we will head over to check in at Union Island and then head over to Tobago Cays.