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Thursday, March 6, 2025

Pointe-a-Pitre - Sainte-Anne

Breakfast of croissants and pain au chocolate on the aft deck and groceries and stowing everything away later we reversed out of spot in the harbour. A tight manouver that with a bit of setting up went flawlessly. It’s nice to know that we can still make the tight turns with Lille Ø although we havent needed those skills since last year!

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The sailing started with beating into the wind and big confused seas of the bay. After the conservative start with staysail and main in 1st reef we first went to full main and then swapped the staysail to the full genoa. Tacking with the genoa in this kind of a sea state with the inner forestay in place meant that we were doing a Q-wende every time. After we got out of the bay and shallow water the going got definitely better.

With an hour of sunlight to spare, we reached our destination. Our first option for anchoring was full, so with very careful manouvering we went in closer to the shore. Now we are anchored in 2m of water with our anchor dug securely into the sandy bottom.

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From the logbook

Time Position Course Speed Log Weather Remarks
06.03. 3:09 Z 16°13'17"N 61°31'43"W 32° 0kt 11159.3NM wind 6.4kt 132° baro 1014 hPa bernhard joined the crew
06.03. 16:05 Z 16°13'17"N 61°31'43"W 137° 0kt 11159.3NM wind 8.7kt 129° baro 1015 hPa Started main engine
06.03. 16:19 Z 16°13'20"N 61°31'46"W 275° 3.3kt 11159.3NM wind 14kt 142° baro 1015 hPa Motoring
06.03. 16:42 Z 16°12'35"N 61°31'46"W 172° 3.6kt 11160.6NM wind 15.5kt 122° baro 1015 hPa Motor stopped, sailing with Main (1st reef), Staysail
06.03. 17:00 Z 16°11'43"N 61°31'49"W 161° 2.4kt 11161.5NM wind 13.8kt 115° baro 1015 hPa Hourly position log
06.03. 17:09 Z 16°11'21"N 61°31'51"W 179° 1.6kt 11161.9NM wind 14kt 119° baro 1015 hPa Sails set: Main, Staysail
06.03. 17:38 Z 16°9'48"N 61°31'39"W 55° 2.5kt 11163.6NM wind 11.1kt 98° baro 1014 hPa Started watermaker
06.03. 17:50 Z 16°10'10"N 61°31'10"W 51° 3.5kt 11164.2NM wind 12kt 120° baro 1014 hPa Watermaker 280ppm
06.03. 18:00 Z 16°10'28"N 61°30'44"W 81° 3.7kt 11164.7NM wind 14.7kt 110° baro 1014 hPa Hourly position log
06.03. 18:08 Z 16°10'41"N 61°30'27"W 71° 3.8kt 11165.1NM wind 11.3kt 103° baro 1014 hPa Sails set: Main, Genoa 1
06.03. 19:00 Z 16°9'16"N 61°29'15"W 165° 3.5kt 11168NM wind 11.9kt 107° baro 1014 hPa Stopped watermaker, 276ppm
06.03. 20:00 Z 16°10'13"N 61°26'45"W 37° 3.1kt 11171.7NM wind 13.4kt 94° baro 1013 hPa Hourly position log
06.03. 20:53 Z 16°12'29"N 61°23'34"W 32° 1.8kt 11175.6NM wind 9.1kt 109° baro 1014 hPa Sails down, motoring
06.03. 21:00 Z 16°12'47"N 61°23'12"W 47° 4.6kt 11176.1NM wind 10.2kt 93° baro 1014 hPa Hourly position log
06.03. 21:19 Z 16°13'13"N 61°23'31"W 342° 0.5kt 11177.1NM wind 8.7kt 123° baro 1014 hPa Anchored
06.03. 21:27 Z 16°13'14"N 61°23'31"W 282° 0.2kt 11177.1NM wind 8.5kt 107° baro 1014 hPa Stopped main engine