Daily Archives: December 7, 2015


For the new sailor (which I am), island hopping has a steep learning curve. The weather reports can be wrong, like the day we left Des Haies, in the north end of Guadeloupe, for the short hop south to Pigeon Bay, about half way down the island. This is only […]

Learning Curve


Hotel, Plymouth, Monserrat.
It’s like a modern day Pompeii, but less famous because few people died. Looking down at the vanished capitol, you understand that the country had its soul ripped out. And the population is still recovering. It’s hard to comprehend the devastation of Plymouth until you see it. All that remains […]

Plymouth, Monserrat