St. Anne, Martinique
14.26.186N
60.53.141W

This morning we could hear Chris Parker, the weather guru, but he couldn’t hear us and Chez Freddie had to relay for us. It sounds like we might be getting a break at the beginning of next week. Let’s keep our fingers crossed. Today however, the weather is closing in and it rained off and on all day with the wind blowing like crazy. We tried to time our trip in to Le Marin between the showers and for the most part made it; just a few sprinkles. We had more of a challenge with the choppy waves in the inner harbor; they have a tendency to build up pretty quick.

We bumped into Jim & Freddie off of Chez Freddie & Gary & Linda off Rainbowrider at the internet café. Jim, a ham operator, suggested that we add radials to our antenna to help in transmitting our messages. He and Dale spoke at length about them and we asked to see his arrangement tomorrow after we all get together for lunch in town.

Once we made it back to the Palace, slightly damper than we started out, we spent the rest of the day reading and watching DVD movies. At one point while sitting in the cockpit just before sundown, we heard a saxophone playing. We looked all around for MT Nest. We even dug out our binoculars and checked out all of the surrounding catamarans looking for them; it certainly sounded like him. We never did find him and we figure the music must have come from ClubMed but I wonder, is Mike around?