27 Apr Antigua to Nevis
At anchor outside Jolly Harbour. Up early for Dave Mc to outboard over to improve Mike Clear’s morale (bad engine problems) on Irish Oyster 51 ‘Oysterhaven’.
Get away late morning for a bouncy trip downwind, with seas all over the place. Got in to Nevis late and pick up a mooring off a strange dark beach. We have no flags to honour our new hosts and we haven’t cleared immigration. Recommendation is to go ashore to Sunshine Beach Cafe, wherever it is. Dodgy call. Rolling around at our (illegal) mooring. Tired. Get dinghy up and in water and engine in. Cant find dinghy keys. Cant find outboard switch so MB decides to make one. Ass over tit scenario getting into dinghy with big swell. Pitch blackness. Where to go ashore? What if we find a windswept concrete pier with barbed wire or a shelving beach with a surfbreak, glass bottles, tree roots and dog turds? We do find a big pier so we lock up to it. Man in immaculate whites comes to tell us to buzz off. Dave falls into dinghy and cuts foot. Blood everywhere. Motor to beach and carry dinghy beyond shorebreak. Sunshine beach cafe is great so MB has spare ribs (muskrat, moose, or marmoset though...not sure). David Mc has lobster. Chips all round. Good meal.
Some difficulty relocating dinghy...and boat but get away with it and return on board very knackered.
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