On 1/25/23 we woke up early and left around 6:30a, just after the sun was up.  Again, we wanted to be sure that we were able to see any fish pots in our path.

When we sail, we have our radio tuned to channel 16, which is the emergency channel.  (A PanPan call means you need assistance but you are not sinking or in catastrophic danger.)  While we were a couple of hours off of Nevis, we heard a PanPan call regarding a missing diver.  The coast guard was responding, as were other sailing vessels in the area.  It added a bit of excitement to our 10-hour sail to listen to the coordinated rescue effort.  I didn’t hear whether or not they found the diver, but I hope so.  It was too late to check in when we arrived.  So, I hoisted the “Q” flag, which is a yellow flag indicating that we haven’t checked into customs yet.

We are anchored in front of Pinney’s Beach, which is probably a mile-long, white-sand beach.  We were lucky enough to get a mooring ball when we arrived yesterday.  There are roughly ten balls in the mooring field.  Anyone who doesn’t get a ball has to anchor.  The water under our boat is dark and not nearly as clear as we saw at our last anchorages in Antigua.  The island itself is steep-to, which means that it is deep water up until close to shore.  There is a beautiful, 3,800 foot above sea level mountain in front of our anchorage, whose top is frequently touched by clouds.  Though, we have seen the clouds dissipate for a few minutes here and there.