Tilly Mint's travels

It seems that all we have done this season is sail up and down the entire Caribbean arc, more precisely between St Martin - the best island to get work done on the boat, and the one that keeps the French part of the chef happy - and Grenada, where we drop off our guests at the end of our Grenadines charters. Each trip down from St Martin to St Lucia is about 36 hours, and each trip back up from Grenada closer to 48 hours, since we often have to sail upwind. By now we are so familiar with these passages that they have become a mere formality - yet we never forget to be grateful for Tilly Mint being so incredibly easy to sail double-handed, and for the ease with which she cruises at 10 knots for hours at a time. The most exciting parts of the trip are generally departures and arrivals. Everything in between feels like being on the highway - watching the succession of islands as we sail past them, waiting to take the right exit. In between our last two passages, we had a beautiful wee...

When you are around something all the time, you tend to forget to look at it and enjoy it... Luckily our guests are here to remind us of how beautiful Tilly Mint is - here are a few pictures of her taken by the guests of our last charter in the Grenadines. At anchor by the Pitons, St Lucia Bequia Still in Bequia Standing out between the cats in Mustique At the dock in St Georges, Grenada Tilly Mint is currently getting pampered in her new favorite spot, namely Marigot Bay in St Lucia. As always she attracts attention - we are thinking of having tourists pay to take pictures of her... On Wednesday we will set sail for St Vincent where we will pick up our next charter guests, then sail down the Grenadines to finish the charter 8 days later in Union. Stay tuned for some more gorgeous pictures of the boat and her amazing playground...