We were up early and released Spring Tradition from its mooring ball by 6:30a.  We had to wait until the sun was up so that we could see while we were leaving.  When we are close to any island, we are on fish-pot alert.  This means that we are scanning in front of the boat to avoid little floating buoys in the water.  We don’t want the nets/lines to get wrapped around our propellers.  We were about an hour off of the coast of Nevis when we suddenly encountered a fish pot field.  We were only sailing in 50 feet of water in this area and a fishing boat had put out many fish pots.   We were trying to navigate through the field with both of us on high alert trying to spot the buoys.  There were a couple of times where Steve had to put the motors in neutral so that the propellers wouldn’t move.  Somehow we made it through and back into deep water.  This was probably the most challenging fishing area that we have ever gone through.

The sail was much more pleasant that we expected.  The wind was coming from the south, which is not typical.  That meant that we were able to put our sails up and turn the motors off for much of the crossing.  It was a really good sail.