Sailing Reel Riddim

Wow, a full on few weeks and definitely need recovery time but we’ve had an absolute class time island hopping with Chantal Samba-Gray Mark Samba-Gray and Lucia Samba-Gray.
Sooo much covered in a small amount of time. Lots of firsts, lots of laughs and not to mention lots of rum, around 16 bottles to be exact 🤕😆🙈. I think every brand from every island has been sampled, especially by Mark! 😵‍💫
Sad to see them go but we really have had an epic little adventure sailing in storms ⚡️🌪️, snorkelling, kiting, wakeboarding (Lucia was better than mark), up the top of the mast, lobster bbqs, sun rises 5am never missed, fishing, turtles 🐢, sharks 🦈 stingrays. Too much to mention. Awaiting their pics when then get home later on.
Excellent to have you all on board RR for a different kind of adventure holiday!

We’re sad to have left Barbados and our good friends Shauny and Michelle but we had to move on and we’ve got some jobs to do. Gonna miss them loads but we hope to catch up again soon. The Bajan people are some of the best we’ve ever met across the world and Barbados will always be close to our hearts, as it was the first time we went 20 years ago.
We left Barbados at noon yesterday on a 20 hour overnight sail to Martinique, French West Indies.
We had a rough time through the night with huge squalls every 15 minutes. We were soaked off the heavy rain in the night and actually was a bit cold. (Probably 20-23 degrees but that’s Baltic to us now!)
We arrived in Martinique this morning after passing by St Lucia and got a shock at the amount of cruisers here! Bare in mind, we were the only boat at anchor in Port St Charles Barbados for weeks and weeks!
Martinique is in the EU’s outer most regions of France. Good news is I can get pain au chocolates, nice coffee’s, french bread and cheese 🧀 and everything else you’d expect to get in france, but in the Caribbean Superb!

We’ve met back up with Dave and Mary here on their boat Draginfly of Dart. We left the U.K with them 2 years ago from the same marina in Gosport. They are anchored right next to us now and was nice to see them again with a cold beer at sundown.
There’s guys out on their kites now so you know what I’ll be doing soon as I can! I’ve not been kitesurfing for a while, I’m sure I’ll be well rusty..

Here’s some pics of our last night in Barbados and arrival to Martinique...