St. Georges Harbor | 04.03.2006

Sorry for the delay in posting our position. Celebration of our arrival from our first blue water trip at the White Horse Tavern in St. Georges started early and ended late. The Gosling Brothers have been significantly enriched.

We arrived Town Cut — the way into St. Georges Harbor at 0800 on April First. No Joke! We had dogged it a bit Friday night to allow for a suitably safe daylight approach, and also for the fun of seeing the island appear over the horizon.

Customs were easy and quick, with only the flare gun being impounded until our departure. We are currently moored “Mediterranean Style” (bow tied to moorings, stern lashed to bollards on the wharf with a gang plank from the stern to the wharf). Captain Smokes Marina 32° 22 41.40 North, 64° 40 56.64 West is within an easy five minute walk from the center of St. Georges, and well protected by a huge fort right up the hill.

We are quite thrilled with the Maggie B’s first Blue Water leg. We averaged 6.2 knots for the 720 NM trip and were only the third sailboat to reach Bermuda this year from North America and the first two were quite damaged. We have a fast “crew friendly” ship. Even doing 10 knots crossing the Gulf Stream in March, the off watch was able to sleep comfortably below.

We have a busy week with lots of little things to fix before we depart for Antigua (about the same distance as from Lunenburg) on April 8th or 9th.

Photos from the trip will be up on the site soon.