Antigua

Rasta, White Beaches, Turquoise waters and a town full of yachties. That's more or less a sum up of Antigua. We spent just over a week there and found our selves well adapt to the way of life in Antigua. As Super Yacht race week was about to begin some of the largest boats any of us had ever seen started to roll in, both interesting and fun.
In Antigua we had a number of highlights such as, Listening to steel drums at Sherly Heights will looking over the entire island, Sipping Pina Coladas in Pelican Bay while watching the sun set with our friends from Timoneer, Diving for lobster on dusk, meeting with friends Guido and Jen who Glenn and Ben had met on the last trip, and finally Curtis being traded for a donkey by Chris on our first day in Antigua.
Antigua is so far one of the beauties experienced by Mawali on our voyage. Friendships made and reunited, we will certainly return on our travels back down the Caribbean Islands. Our overall experience was certainly a good one and we now move on to new experiences starting in St. Martin.
I will post more pictures of Antigua this week.

Over and Out,
The Mawali Crew

Antigua

Atlantic Passage

21 Days, that's how long our passage across the Atlantic Ocean was. With a couple of major events along the way (Christmas, NY and the birthday of on of our crew) the passage was rather pleasant. While the company was good it was unfortunate that the Atlantic had such an uncomfortable ride in store for us. We spent the first 10 days trying to find the trade winds with consistent swells and wind that didn't continuously shift every 3 hours, unfortunately they were more than difficult to find and our journey consisted of confused swells up to approx. 6-10m and gusty wind between 20 and 30 knots.

Overall the crossing was an experience and if we hadn't caught a 30kg King Mackerel it would have been far worse. As Antigua came into view there were a number of deep breaths of relief but it has been an achievement none the less. Below are a few photos of our crossing.......