We left St. Barth on Sunday afternoon for an overnight sail to Antigua, it was about 80 miles and we go no faster with the swells and waves then about 5 knots, so it would take us between 16 or 18 hours. You don't want to arrive in an unknown area in the dark, therefore you have to do an overnight-er. The wind was good and we went more than half the way without the motors. Good sailing!
We should have gone immediately to check in, but we dropped the anchor in a wonderful quiet bay and went first to sleep. We noticed a resort on land and tried (you never know) the internet and yes!!! access without a password. So we tried to skype and looked up everything we were interested in, so nice, so wonderful.
We also were very lucky that there came a half hour long down pour, because the Lady Hawk was one piece of salt from all the spray water and this cleaned the boat for free without having to do anything.
We cannot say much about Antigua, but it looks very lush and green and with a bay with only one boat, it looks really promising. We will now go to Jolly Harbor where we or, officially only the captain ,will have to go to do all the paperwork.
I hope we will find more of these places and have contact trough the computer.
Hope to tell you all soon more about this place, until then have good and positive thoughts, Ria
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