We left the last of our provisioning for 1st May...and what is it? Its Mayday of course!...and everything is shut. Everything apart from the expensive restaurants. So, our great cargo of mangos, papaya, bananas, bread, eggs etc, is not to be. We decide to go anyway rather than spend more time in rolly harbours. The forecast is pretty awful with the Grib files showing geat sworls and rainy bits for days ahead right in the area we're going.
After showers and a cafe lunch we deflate & store the dinghy and then Kedge ourselves off the rolly and exposed jetty with our trusty fortress anchor (amazing feats of seamanship I can tell you). Motor off to an outer harbour buoy for final preps and stowing. Scary stuff. MB has Crowhurstian collywobbles. Sad to be leaving WIs after so many months.
Our 1700-ish departure from St Barths is our last from a caribbean port. Soon we are in very dark and choppy seas and stomachs are not liking it. The ocean out there is big and dark and the tradewind seas are all of 10 ft high. The last few islands, St Martin, and Anguilla slip by during the night. The rains come on. Only 2500 miles of this to the Azores!
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