The 65 nm sail from Bequia to Rodney Bay, St Lucia took a bit longer than planned. We left around 6 am, but the wind was just a bit too much in the North to make it in a single tack. Also it was kind of blowing, about 30 – 35 kts and since the St. Vincent street between St Vincent and St Lucia is kind of shallow. That makes the waves steep and short and high too. At one point a huge wave rolled all the way over the deck and we got some serious water down the hatch :-o. 
With only a couple of hours more to go, the genoa got torn for 20 cm and we had to furl it in to save it. Luckily in Rodney Bay they have a very good sailmaker. We motorsailed the last part and around 9 pm we got into the marina and found a nice place.
Next day Marc and Clare were gonna leave but first we went to 'Spinnakers', a special place for Marc and Clare … :-) This place has real funny waves, they actually roll back from the beach. I had never seen this before...We had lunch and a nice swim and chilled until it was time to go back to the boat and get ready to say goodby.. 
Too bad they had to miss the party, and some party it was. Together with Collin, whom we had met several times since Puerto Calero, Lanzarote, and his Canadian/Finnis crew, Rob, Kristin and Tanja and a Dutch couple we met on the dock together with their kids, we shared a cab to the 'strip'. Actually we only got halve way when the taxi got stuck in the crowd and we walked the rest. At 'Delirious' we had a couple of drinks and close to midnight we all went back to Spinnakers at the beach to watch the fireworks. By that time it got really, really packed and the whole place was vibrating on the music that came from everywhere. It was impossible to get another drink there so we all went back to Delirious and had a real great time :-)We managed to make it back to the marina by taxi where we had a nightcap until it started to get light again :-o
This was some new years eve! I hope Marc and Clare had a nice flight.... :-o
