Happy sailing - Mini refit, found Harry & heading to the Azores!

That is us heading to the Azores!

 We completed a major refit in Carriacou. We then sailed to Martinique to pick up our pal and crew Harry. The 110 nm sail took 38 hrs and I was sick for 24 of them. During the sail, Al noticed too much forward mast bend so we got a second opinion. We ended up doing a mini refit at Le Marin. Luckily North sails managed to fit us in and fit our dodger windows which broke on the sail (thanks to Highwatersails for the contact) and then the riggers at Cariabe Marine fitted us into the dock and the righers worked over the weekend to fix our forestay and change all stagelocks!  The rest of this blog contain some random photos from the last few weeks because I am writing this as we head along the West side of Martinique to then head to the Azores!

We have made Cariad our home!

Rigging ready to go on...the moment the forestay was cut too short.

We have had some chilled time to snorkel!

Spot Cariad! Le Marin was rammed with expensive boats.

The legend owner of the rigggers who sorted us out last minute.

When we left Carriacou the wind had too much North in it so we pulled into Union for a night for some dinner and a snorkel!

Happy sailing!

Harry settling on on board!

We bought a kayak to use instead of a dinghy! Such fun.

Al giving us an electronics lecture!

We have packed so much food onto Cariad!!!! Lots of sardines.

Beautiful.

I will post in a few weeks from the Azores!

We are launched!

It has been a hectic few weeks. Everyone in the yard was as shocked as we were that we were ready to launch! 

With stern gland getting bedded,the furlex, GPS, and a few other things that we had to fix it has been a hectic day! 

Test sail tomorrow!!