Leaving Jolly Harbour, Antigua.
We wanted to get fuel and do a sea trial before setting out tomorrow to make sure all the mechanical repairs were good to go. Engine running great, some black smoke out the exhaust, but purred like a kitten. The prop pitch change doesn't give us the power we are used to; we'll have that changed in Trinidad along with the injectors that will make the fuel run cleaner. Looks like we're good to go in the morning.
Provisioning is done, laundry clean, fuel topped off!
New Main luff track is the best it's ever been, very smooth. While returning to the entrance, we were astounded to see 3-4 people in the water off a shoal just off our bow apparently diving for lobster. No diver down flag and a guy in a skiff about 70 yards from the swimmers not waving us off our 8 kt/hr headed right for them path. Stupid & dangerous. We could have had people chowder on our resume!!
Not sure if we're headed to Barbuda or Montserrat.
At sundown, while Sharon & Simba were at the grocery store finishing up the provisioning, Bruce swears he saw a very large plume of smoke rising from Montserrat. It was too dark when returning to the boat to say if he was seeing things or not...
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