St. Kitts

St. Kitts is a sister island to Nevis and only a short crossing of about 10 miles. We introduced Donna to Caribbean sailing with an easy sail of 15 knots winds and 1 meter seas. St. Kitts like Nevis is steeped in history with St. Kitts being the first island of the West Indies to be colonized by the British

This is our first time using a marina and our first time to moor Mediterranean style. This was a bit of a luxury as it had showers, power and unlimited water. We weren’t long in the dock before Alex had a young man show up that met her in Nevis and it wasn’t long for the rest of us to hit the showers (even a cold shower felt good).

Donna Du and I were off fairly early to tour the island. We caught the mini bus that took us down the island where it stopped a short distance from the Romney Manor. We hiked the rest of the way and were treated to the sights of a beautiful old plantation garden and a demonstration of batiking. From here we hopped a shared taxi and headed off to the Brimstone Hill Fort. This is probably the biggest fort that we have toured and by far the most intriguing. Our bus driver was only allowing us ½ hour for this stop. This only allowed us time to explore a fraction of the site so we parted ways with him and spent a couple hours wandering around. We hiked down the hill and met a mini bus on the main road. The driver drove like a madman and Donna and I tried hard not to think about whether we were going to make it back to the boat.

When we arrived back to the boat there was quite a scene on our bow with a half dozen people holding off a 43’ chartered mono hull from banging into us. As the boat was coming into the marina the driver failed to see our mooring line off our bow and drove right over it. They had to send a diver down to cut our anchor bridle from their prop (which was toast). After watching this and many other charter boats, we would be reluctant to put a boat into a charter fleet.

Next stop Saba!