Yesterday we traveled from Chatham Bay on Union Island, in the southern part of the Grenadines, to Admiralty Bay on Bequia in the northern part of the Grenadines. It took us about 6 hours and was fairly directly into the wind. For the sailor, we were close-hauled at about 60-degrees off true wind direction. This creates a fairly rough ride, even though wind speeds were between 10 and 15 knots (think MPH). Seas were about 3 feet with an occasional 6 footer. Not too bad, but makes for a long day of pounding when you’re going into them.

Anyway, the pounding creates a lot of salt water spray and the entire boat obviously gets covered in salt water spray. The two pics above were taken this morning about 10AM – about 16 hours after we arrived. The salt water evaporates fairly slowly, and, even when it finally evaporates, you’re left with salt on everything. Outside, but also inside you get a mist that covers everything. Also corrodes everything.

After traveling like that, you pray for either a hose or a good rain shower to wash everything down.