Our Honda generator's coil mutinied so we were left without 110 volt power to charge the batteries leaving us to rely on solar and/or wind, giving up smoothies for breakfast along with electric perked coffee. Since our norm are fruit smoothies the hunt was on for a coil or new generator. The only generators on the island are 220 volt for european appliances and the part to repair ours will take 2 - 8 weeks to ship in. So we left St. Anne and sailed up to Grande Ainse and anchored for a couple of nights and then on to Fort du France to try to find a generator part.
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| into Fort de France Fred & Marsha are to the left |
We did find some other parts sorely needed but no generator so we pulled anchor and crossed the bay to Trois Ilets for ice cream and the night. Next morning we sailed up to St. Pierre to anchor and sign out of the country.
Since we have no schedule we did not know what day it was, the customs office closed at noon on Friday to reopen 0930 Monday. So we got an unplanned weekend in the town at the base of Mt. Pele, which 30,000 were killed by the 1902 eruption.
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| Mt. Pele from St. Pierre harbor |
Gorgeous little seaside town, has a lighted statue of Virgin Mary to guide sailors safely into port. A catholic Cathedral constructed in 1635 and is just now being renovated.
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| Virgin Mary by night |
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| by day |
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| pot of gold must be in the Catholic Cathedral, confirms my suspicions! |
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| the cathedral |
300' off the beach the water was over 100' deep so we ended up anchoring in 20 ft of water in a honky tonks backyard. Saturday got a little rowdy but Sunday they toned down the speakers, brought live performers and gave us decent entertainment all day until 2200hrs.
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| too close to shore for comfort, our anchor is midway from the beach to Encore, depth gauge shows 43' at boat |
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| nights entertainment |
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