Tilly Mint's travels

Tilly Mint has worked hard this past week, as she took her crew and four charter guests from Marigot Bay, St Lucia, to St Georges, Grenada, sailing all the way in light and heavier weather. Here are a few pictures of this wonderful charter, with great guests, exciting sails, stunning scenery and beautiful beaches... The Pitons, St Lucia Sailing hard - on the way to Bequia Petit Tabac, Tobago Cays Breakfast on the newly varnished cockpit table Sunset on Sandy Island, Carriacou St Georges, Grenada After all this traveling, Tilly Mint is now taking a well-deserved break in Spice Island yard, where she is trying to tan her bottom side... On the travel lift Biggest boat in the yard!

As I mentioned in the previous post, Tilly Mint had to spend last week at the dock in the St Martin lagoon to have her rig tuned. That means that we had to sail through the Simpson Bay bridge twice, so we chose an innocent victim and sent him up the mast with our HD camera on a helmet to film our entrance into the lagoon. The way out was filmed from the bow a few days later. Watch the video by clicking on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TvxoLd4XTw NB: We did NOT go through the bridge doing 12 knots - the speed of the video has been slightly increased to make it shorter and more exciting! We arrived in St Lucia on Monday after a 36-hour upwind sail, which confirmed that the rig tune was a success. Tilly Mint sailed fast and made her crew happy! Sailing by St Kitts Getting ready for the next charter in Marigot Bay, St Lucia

After a full week spent in the lagoon to get our rig tuned, we took Tilly Mint out yesterday for a test sail that was very conclusive. We are now looking forward to a nice sail down to St Lucia, where we will pick up our guests next week. Another rainbow! Over the megayachts in the lagoon... To follow up on our previous article on intercultural breakfasts, we decided to have an Iron Chef contest over breakfast for the benefit of the guests of our last charter. Find out who won in our guestbook: http://www.tillymint67.com/guestbook.html Grits and crepes, only the best for our guests!