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This morning we were planing of leaving around 0630 but I woke up sick with a bad sinus cold so we decided to maybe hold off until the following day, I felt a bit better as the morning wore on so I ran into town for a few quick supplies. Once I was back on the boat we decided what the heck lets get going with a great forecast it was hard not too, so we goat away at 0930 three hours later than planned. We stowed our dinghy and motor on the deck, hauled up our anchor and we were off with a nice a4 knot NE breeze. We shut the motor off soon after leaving and started on eof the best sails so far. We had the main and jib reefed a bit because not matter what the forecast says its always always stronger than expected. The breeze didn't disappoint us and had soon built up to about 18knots and had us flying along at over 8knots for the majority of the day. Boy it sure helps to have a clean bottom to keep the boat going fast.The sun was out and the temp was about 80 degrees and we managed to pass to similar sized boats like they were standing still:0) My time with my tutor JIm MacDonald and all the sailing was starting to pay off, we are really starting to understand how to make Rose Lee move. Forty three miles under our keel and six hours later we pulled into St. Pierre, Martinique feeling like sailing gods. WE set the anchor in 25 feet af water and got a great set right away, wow this day just kept getting better. After relaxing for a bit we took a buzz into town to check out the sites and grab an appetizer and have some wine. I put on my favorite shorts and Joyce put on a nice dress and away we went. The dingy dock was a large fixed concrete pier, which is something I haven't seen before so I approached slowly and switched into neutral. Unbeknownst to us there was a bit of a current running under the peir and even though Joyce and I grabbed hold of the dock the dinghy decided it just wanted to keep going right under the pier, well this isnt good. So now the dinghy is all the way under the pier and Joyce and I are cling to the dock with our feet in the dinghy and our asses in the water and are about to g swimming without our dinghy. Luckily there was another guy who just jumped into his boat and was able to grab the back of our dinghy and pull our boat out from under the pier. Well with wet asses and a red face I got the dinghy squared away and was to get safely on the dock with Joyce, had a few laughs tonight while enjoy our wine and food and we were pretty well dry by the time we returned to the boat. Lesson learned today everything goes in the dry bag lesson (2) when approaching a dinghy dock be afraid! be very afraid!:)
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