Steve had planned our sailing route.  We were going to sail to Basse Terre, which is a large city at the southern part of Guadeloupe.  This meant that we were going to leave as soon as we could see objects in the water, which was about 6am.  If we arrived in time, we would clear into customs in this town. 

We made good time between the islands of Antigua and Guadeloupe.  This crossing can be rough with high sea swells and strong winds.  However, this crossing was quite good. We saw approximately 5 foot swells and the wind was fairly constant between 16 and 18 knots.  We probably averaged between 6 and 7 knots per hour for the entire trip.  However, once on the Leeward side of Guadeloupe, the wind died and we put on our engines to keep our time up so that we could arrive before the sun went down.  Our sail plan worked well, which was great. 

Anchoring in Basse Terre was challenging.  The anchorage was in deep water – approximately 50 feet.  So, we had to put out all of the chain that we had to hold the boat.  We had to re-anchor one time and then we found good holding.  There were several other boats in the anchorage.  The anchorage was off of an industrial part of the island.  Given this, and the deep anchorage, we decided to continue on to the Saintes the next morning.