Again, a hectic few days in St Martin.
Friday, we rented a car – a trip over to Philipsburg – more electronics including little computer for Charlotte (and for me to take ashore without the worry of water damage to an expensive computer in the dingy). In the afternoon, there was a kids’ beach party on Simpson Bay beach – they had continued the weekly beach play dates that Charlotte had started. That evening, making good use of the rental car, we went over to Grand Case for dinner – Grand Case is on the French side of St Martin and is known for its street full of great French restaurants.
Up and out early the next morning – a trip to Cost-U Less – the big warehouse type shopping where we stock up on a lot of our food for the next few months. Once the car was returned, more social activities for Charlotte with Harmony’s 11th birthday party on the beach. We think that Jimmy Buffet was playing that night in St Barths after the “St Barths Bucket” (the sailing races for boats over 100 feet!! – quite a sight) –but it was Charlotte’s turn for a social life!!
Sunday morning, the cruisers weekly “Champagne Breakfast” get together. Then after that we headed back to the Islander Hotel (where Paul and Leonor had stayed) to meet up with Jimmy’s brother and sister-in-law Dennis and Patty, who were down in their timeshare for a week.
We spent the day with them, then headed back to the boat at dark, put Charlotte to bed, picked up the anchor at 9.30pm and continued our trip down to St Lucia (about another 200 miles), where we were meeting Claire the following weekend.
As we passed St Barths that night, we could see so many red anchor lights in the anchorage – a boat that has a very high mast (over about 100 feet) has to have a red rather than white anchor light (for low flying airplanes) – St Barths was full of very large boats that weekend for the St Barths Bucket race.
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