Usual morning preparations.  A dip in the sea, breakfast, hoisting the dinghy and off we go.  We plan to make it all the way up to Rodney Bay, St.Lucia and before that we must check out of St.Vincent and the Grenadines.  We go a short way up to Kingstown and moor to a quai.  The water is seemingly calm but swells find their way in and we bounce off the concrete with a lot of strain on the fenders.   We need to go to the airport pretty close by and officials there relieve us of some “easydollars”.  In addition to the taxi drive it all adds up to quite a sum of money…..

We go up inside, leeward to St.Vincent with erratic winds.  Pass Vallilabou, most inconspicuous in the daytime (and even more so, of course, at night as last time).  We tumble out in the gap up to St.Lucia where the wind stabilizes to the usual 25 knots and a wee bit too northerly, so we slide westwards.  The extremely conspicuous Pitons hide in the haze and we don’t see them until very late. The trip ends with a couple of hours motoring up close to the coast in the dark and we do not reach Rodney Bay until 2030.  We cast anchor in the southern par of the bay: Dinner and bed.