This passage we had been looking forward to for quite a while. Heading south with the east wind, ideal. Much better than heading east with an east wind like our previous passages.

There was no rush to leave Antigua as we were at a beautiful anchorage, nice beach, groceries,and restaurants near by.

After 5-7? days a good weather window came, and it was time to sail south to Grenada. This would be 315 nm, but with the great wind angle we figured Catnip could knock it off in just over 48 hrs.

We wanted to leave early to arrive noonish on the third day. We started to lift the anchor at 9:00 AM. Yes you read that right, “started to. Grrrr, it wasn’t coming up. Catnip pulled on the anchor in every direction, but it wasn’t coming up.

Then we noticed our neighbour coming over in their dinghy. They had already called a diver for us, and he would be there shortly. There’s old cables and chains on the bottom where we anchored that boats often get caught on.

The diver only needed 10 minutes to free the anchor from an old cable and then it came up just fine. A fuel stop and we were on our way.

The wind angle was great and Catnip really moved along well. Hitting 11 knots at one point, and lots of 7-8 knots.

At this rate we would be in Granada in just over 48 hours as planned, however we had not planned on it taking about 4 hours to retrieve our anchor, so if you do the math, we would be arriving just after sunset.

Our port of entry was Prickly Bay, so we dropped the anchor there. In the morning we cleared in, and now are spending hurricane season in Grenada. We have been here for over a month now, and it’s been nice. We have had time to put this blog together, Cathie has started to learn watercolor, we have had bbqs on the beach with neighbours, found our way around to get propane, groceries, good beaches and trails for Sequoia, snorkeling etc. As you can see we are really enjoying life on Catnip.