Left Antigua and headed to Guadeloupe

As the title says we left Antigua and headed for Guadeloupe on Wednesday. We left at 6:30 and got here a 12:45. Its 43.3 knots so we averaged 6.9 knots. I wish I could say it was because of our great working engines that we made such good time, but it was the wind that carried us here. We had between 18 and 28 knots of wind so it didn't make any sense to turn on the engines. That was more wind than we had planned for. I like to sail when the wind is less than 23. Anything over that and I think about double reefing. Yesterday I had the jib double reefed and the main single reefed.

The waves can get big enough that the boat has a hard journey and it can beat it up to much. That didn't happen much yesterday because we were on a beam reach and running 90 degrees from the waves.  Although waves were quite big. At times you couldn't see over them but once you got used to it, it wasn't a bad trip. We haven't been in that big of seas since the southern Bahamas last year after hurricane Gonzo

The boat is running excellent. Even though we didn't use the engines to sail down here we did use them to leave Antigua and to come into Guadeloupe. They ran nicely and I didn't have any issues with them at all.

We landed in Deshaies (pronounced Day-ay), Guadeloupe. Since Guadeloupe is a french island I'm back on croissants and bagets for breakfast. The french have the best bakeries. We found some bakeries in Antigua that had croissants and bagets but they just weren't as good.

Deshaies is on the leeward of a rain forest, which mean that every second hour we get a little rain squall. It only lasts a minute of two but we have to close all the hatches. It makes it hard to get a good nights sleep.

We haven't seen much of Deshaies since we can't find a place to check in that is open. Once we get checked in I will have some more info to pass on.