Antigua: English Harbor - Anchor Down!

With 35 - 40 knots of wind, rain and lightning all around for 5 hours, I could not see land within 10 miles of Antigua.

5 miles from English Harbor, the sky turned blue and the sun came out! What a terrible welcome, storm and lightning windward of the French Islands of Martinique and Guadalupe.

I don't get along with the French anyway and a little storm and lightning won't change my appraisal of the French. All the better to be welcomed by sunshine and happy people.

The entrance to English Harbor was so dangerous that I went around the corner to Falmouth Harbor where all the 'Super-Yachts' park.

I will go back to English Harbor after the storm.


Tomorrow the Yanmar mechanic comes aboard with new parts and I will have internet to send out some photos.

Mike Harker
WanderLust 3
Hunter 49 BOTY