What a heinous crossing! Single reef, apparent winds 20-25 gusts to 30 made for a hearty beat to Lindbergh Bay. Seas were 6-8 at 7 seconds with a lot of white cap. This stretch is always a bit confused even on a good day where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean. Today was unusually windy and washing machine conditions. More like the “Christmas Winds” we get in the winter season. A friend of mine said.. “Wow.. you crossed today???.. it was snotty out there.” Sahara dust is as thick as we’ve ever seen it and has made for burning eyes and throat and crap visibility, it’s typical in the summer but thicker than usual. Good news is it supposedly keeps the hurricanes away as it’s very dry air with a tinge of camel dung flavor.

Savannah was severely sea sick almost entire way despite how incredibly well Huntress (Grand Soleil 46 LC) handled the wind and seas. This boat is made for blue water sailing. We powered under sail to windward averaging 6.5 kts no pounding and very stable. Even though Savannah may beg the differ…! 4 hrs later we pulled into the West End of St. Thomas into Lindbergh Bay where we anchored briefly to let S take a break. The plan was to dinghy in and go register the boat since it was walking distance to the airport and offices, but we were also waiting on a part that would not get in until much later in the afternoon. After some discussion…..  we changed gears and decided to just get on up to Christmas Cove and knock out the rest the “crossing”, motor sailing the last 2hrs to the East End of St. Thomas (charge the batteries and get us there quicker for less puke splash..) and moored in Christmas Cove. As soon as Savannah jumped into the water she was instantly better! We took a wonderful evening snorkel (of which Savannah posted a cool video of!), watched the sun go down and had a scrumptious meal of potato soup over wild rice and MORE TUNA pan seared with onion, garlic, butter and broccoli, followed by Daddy doing some touch up to Savannah’s dreads and dancing in the salon! (videos on Facebook.. lol). Silly evening indeed! I’ll try and attach the link to the videos Savannah is putting together!

https://www.facebook.com/100023890121222/posts/227657764707226/Video by Savannah!