Night sail to Prickly Bay

Work to do in Scotland Bay! The dinghy, our "water taxi", with its yellow checkerboard pattern on the motor, is covered with barnacles on its underside. Oernulf hacks them off and I do a meticulous "aftershave", scraping and scrubbing their white bases away. A new smooth clean-shaven "WaterTaxi" splashes in Scotland Bay.
Channel 68's weatherman from "Foreclosure" is our neighbor in the bay and we row over for the latest report. Another boat, almost up on the shore at the head of the bay, is a wooden "Colin Archer" ketch, called "Froeken" (Missy") from Oslo. The owner, 74 yrs. old, has circumnavigated four times, he tells us, and is now busy with a noisy metal cutting machine he's borrowed.

At 16:30 we pull anchor and are off again. Destination: Grenada. We have East to South-east wind and we lean hard on it, so as not to lose height to the strong current. 15 to 20 knots of wind, a bit confused seas, but a good sail over. After a good rest at the start, my night-watch goes well. Oernulf's watch has the fishing boats and oil riggs to sail past. I get to do the star-gazing this time.