P L A T I N A

We have been in the Marina Bas du Fort in Guadeloupe for 11 days now, staring at this boat sunk across the lagoon from where we are sitting. The light this morning made it especially glamourous, so I snapped this photo. It is not Platina, who now has a spanking new generator fan, which, as it turned out, worked all along. The original one had not been wired properly. We were having trouble with our backup autopilot (why have 1 when you can have 2?), which is being reinstalled as we speak.

So off we go again. We head today for Les Saintes, a group of small islands on the south coast of Guadeloupe, where we will anchor and head in for dinner at a lovely spot we have heard about.

We are a week behind our schedule now, with a lot of ground to cover. The bad news is there is very little wind. The good news is that it is due to a big high pressure system.