S/Y Babette Sails to the Caribbean

S/Y Babette sails to the Caribbean, carefully avoiding the Pirates, and then sails back again to Norway.

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Reef labarynth into Nonesuch Bay


What a name, "Nonesuch Bay". Like "Saltwhistle", we just had to go and see it. Even if it does have a tricky, reefy entrance. The weather's calm-ish and we're off at 11:30am for a two hour headwind motor sail.
We're soon rounding York Island, and ready to dot to waypoint-dot ourselves through the reefs. We hope. If the gps satellites are behaving and the maps are accurate down to this scale. But we have reality also. There's Green Island, which we're rounding. We watch the turquoise waters, green over sand, brownish over grass or coral, our depth instrument is another loyal friend.
We thread ourselves around behind Green Island. And arrive in a rather large anchorage, with only 10, 12 boats. Our anchor's down at 2pm; we are the third Norwegian boat. That's a good percentage for such a little country. Our Annapolis boat-friends on "Full Circle" are there, too. Nice to have them aboard "Babette" as "lunch" becomes "dinner", while the sun sets beyond the reef breakwaters. And the full moon rises into a huge open sky.

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