Ep 176 Kevin & Wendy | Stellar Sailing from Guadeloupe to Antigua

We complete our loop; Antigua, Sint Maarten, British Virgin Islands, USVI, St Croix, and Guadeloupe. This trip is always bittersweet, given that it marks our return home to Antigua. We love Antigua, and it’s our home base, but it means the adventure sailing is coming to an end. Soon it’ll be summer, with scorching hot temperatures and occasional spells of breathlessness. But for this hop things go oh so well. We take a minor 25nm detour from the small islands of Iles des Saints, Guadeloupe north to Bas du Fort/Pointe-A-Pitre. This allowed us to get fuel, which I should have gotten in Antigua instead. Much of the food and other goods in the French islands are subsidized by the French government, but apparently not fuel. A simple internet search would have saved us some much-needed cash. A few days in the Bas du Fort marina was a nice change of pace, and the marina hosts many bars, restaurants, and small boutiques. Not really cheap, but I have a developing thing for French food and culture, despite not speaking a word of the language. Wendy speaks passable French (and Spanish, German, etc). From there we head back down around the west side of the “butterfly” (Guadeloupe is shaped like a butterfly), and up to Deshaies, the jumping off point for Monserrat and Antigua. I swear we took a fair amount of video footage in Deshaies, but then it never showed up in our computer directories. Leaving Deshaies when we did was an easy choice, given that winds were forecasted to climb into the 30’s in the upcoming days, with no sign of lessening. So we grabbed the last weather window for the 35nm passage across to Antigua. And it was epic! sailing yacht talisman, sailing, sailing YouTube, boating, top sailing, oyster yachts, oyster sailboats, oyster 485, offshore, bluewater, blue water, sailing vlog, sailing vblog, sailing videos, cruising, monohull, boat projects, offshore how to, boat life, Guadeloupe, heavy weather sailing, Antigua, Falmouth Harbour, English Harbour, Nelsons Dockyard, Nelson’s