On Our Way...St. Kitts

It's so easy to get bogged down by small problems but problems or not, we are on our way and it feels great to be moving! We left St. Maarten on Tuesday and had a great sail to St. Bart's where we were treated to our first pilot whale sighting just as we were entering the anchorage. We had a quick snorkel at Anse du Columbier again and spent the night before a 9.5 hour sail to St. Kitts this morning. No whales or dolphins, but what a great sail over! The crossing was all that we always envisioned sailing these waters to be: the warm wind at a perfect 12-15 knots 30 degrees off our port bow, the seas were small at 3-4 feet and we had Exodo cruising at 7.5 knots most of the way and even hit 8 knots on a few occasions. Had a small rough patch while transiting the channel between Statia and St. Kitts and enjoyed a short but hard rain squall which nicely cleaned the decks and us too! Ten minutes later, there is no trace it ever happened! We rounded the northeast corner to an easy ten mile sail down the island to the marina at the town of Basseterre. That 10 mile stretch was certainly one of the prettiest and most scenic I've seen yet. Beautiful seaside villages, churches, brick smoke stacks at old sugar cane plantations, the largest historical fort in the Caribbean perched high on a majestic hill and spectacular jungle hillsides leave me breathless. We are off to check in, have a bite to eat and plan to see a little more of the island tomorrow.


Beautiful St. Kitts Coastline


Sailing past the volcano on St. Eustatius (Statia)


Our view this morning as we sailed to St. Kitts


Pilot whales in front of Anse du Columbier on St. Barts