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Hog Island Walkabout

by steve, on May 11th, 2009 (Bees Knees, Grenada)

This morning started off with a bit of success. If you’re a regular reader you’ll know that a part of a cruisers life is spent troubleshooting and/or fixing things. I have been keeping the trivial stuff out of the blog as it gets a bit boring I think. However, recently I discovered I could get significantly better reception on some of my side band radio bands by turning off the 12V supply to my ships ‘brain’. I had gone further by switching off every single power outlet and breaker coming out of the brain box and that would not lower the interference. I was under the assumption that the motherboard itself was the cause.

I had mentioned this to Jim previously and he offered to take a look. I took him through what I had done so far and Jim, rather obviously, asked my what else the 12V supply I was turning off was connected to. “Only the water maker,” was my reply. So we turned that off (even though it was running) and hey presto, the interference dropped. I kick myself as this is the sort of question I ask others but needed Jim today to help me through the obvious. We further determined that connecting the SSB chassis to the water maker chassis also eliminated the noise without having to turn the water maker off.

So now I have another summer project to properly connect the two chassis. For now I know to switch off the water maker to stop any interference.

Just after Jim left Helen and I went for a walk around Hog Island. There is a road that winds through the island and the east and south borders have been sectioned into plots although nothing bar a bridge to the island has been built. The prime spot on the end of the island appealed to us the most. We were able to get down to the shore in places and walk on wind/sea eroded rocks. I took my hand held GPS stuck into my hat for good reception. Here is the track and pics from our trip.


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Hog Island Beach BBQ

by steve, on May 11th, 2009 (Bees Knees, Grenada)

Leaving the north end of Clark’s Court Bay we weren’t entirely sure which of the many surrounding anchorages we should head to. When we learned from Bees Knees that there was going to be a beach BBQ on nearby Hog Island where they were anchored our mind was made up.

We motored round to the anchorage using a buoyed dinghy channel. While coming round we saw Anne and Jim exploring the island. They gave us their ‘Happy Dance’ to greet us. It was fairly tight getting through the channel with the depth under 6ft towards the end of the channel but we made it without any scrapes. The anchorage was pretty packed but we found a spot.

We stayed on the boat for the afternoon to avoid the heat and went ashore around 3pm. The BBQ had already started and locals and cruisers were already there with music playing and the live band setting up. We stayed until after dark meeting a number of people who we are likely to see again throughout summer. This is what I always imagined a Caribbean beach bar to be and now, after six months, we have found one. The BBQ is held here every Sunday. We can certainly imagine returning here a number of times over summer.

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Clark’s Court Bay

by steve, on May 10th, 2009 (Grenada)

Here we are in Clark’s Court Bay. It’s much less bumpy which is good. On the bad side it took us quite a while dragging before the anchor stuck. Not sure we want to stay too long in this spot. We’ll explore then probably move on before days end. Getting here we passed a lot of other anchorages. Given that we’re looking for somewhere to leave Dignity we’re leaving these to another time. We should have plenty of time over summer to see all of these.

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St David’s Bay

by steve, on May 10th, 2009 (Grenada)

St David’s Bay has a dockyard/haul out facility, a chandlery, a sailmaker, a bar, a fancy little resort & restaurant and a deli. That’s it. Very out of the way and quite pleasant.

We went ashore in the afternoon to take a look around. We soon bumped into a Canadian couple, Chantal and James from the sailboat Q. They had a massive pot of food in front of them and soon invited us to share. They had been interested in how locals put together a local dish and had paid for the ingredients as long as they could watch and film them make it. Now they had enough to feed the masses.

We joined them in the bar and chatted about the usual cruiser stuff. The food was served and was very pleasant. Eventually we had to part as they needed to go back to their boat, which was already on the hard for summer, to complete some work.

We had a wander around the dockyard seeing a number of boats already lifted that we’d seen in the last few months further up the islands. We took a walk around to the deli and hotel both of which were closed for the weekend.

Back on Dignity, relieved of the need to feed ourselves and clean up after, we watched “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” about a chap who ages backwards. Weird film but interesting.

Today we’ll head west. We need to as this anchorage is a little rolly and it’s always nicer when the waters are flat.

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Arrived in Grenada

by steve, on May 9th, 2009 (Grenada)

Quick post to say we’ve arrived safely in St David’s Harbour after a pleasant sail down the east coast. No fish action – they must be on their hols. Over the next few days we’ll be exploring the various harbours/bays and the marine facilities.

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