The 3^rd of January we left St Martin and sailed for approximately twenty hours to reach Tortola, an island on the British side of the Virgin Islands. The sailing was extremely slow due to no winds.  We hoisted the gennaker quite early to gain some more speed. After sunset we started the engine since the there were no winds, what so ever.

Our search for electronic charts over south Florida and the Bahamas was still unsuccessful so we went to yet another marine store. We finally got lucky! The guy in the shop helped us order the specific items that we needed and today they arrived with FedEx. This means that we are ready to explore the Bahamas, and that’s where we are heading tomorrow morning.

As you know our spinnaker broke on the crossing and in St Lucia a sail maker repaired it. However we needed to straighten the sail out and put it back into its sock before we could use it again. We also did the same thing with the gennaker since it was a mess as well.

Now we are looking forward to continued nice sailing (hopefully more gennaker practice)... And we hope that the Bahamas will live up to its expectations. Everyone we have met so far tells us that it's a paradise.




Sorting the spinnaker out




Our beutiful gennaker, working as it should!




The captain is tired, letting his crew to take him to the next destination.



Malin and Ove at Tortola




Elina and a rooster at Tortola. We tried to catch it for dinner, but he was to quick. He could have been a cheap and tasty...