Sailing Around The World With New Dawn.

Tuesday 28.04.2020 . Our new crew, Alex, joined us last Friday.  Alex is Swiss from Zurich and owns a HR-36. Because of the Corona Virus and lockdown he decided to haul his boat out in Grenada and return home to work. That was the good news, but a less good news about crew is that the French couple I had signed up and that were already in St Martin, canceled last Friday, so we are back looking for another crew and I am in contact with a lot of potential crew, but unfortunately most of them have to fly to St Martin and as far as I know the airport will be closed to at least mid May, so it will be difficult for them to fly in and they are likely to be put into a two week’s quarantine on arrival. Yesterday we moved from Prickly Bay to the St George anchorage, which is a much better anchorage as the swell is much less disturbing and the hills in front of us give more protection. In the various bays on the south coast of Grenada, there are several hundred boats and we learned t...

SSCA Interview Concerning My Circumnavigation is now ready. Unfortunately the sound is not optimal likely caused by that Luc and Jackie were in Indonesia and me in Grenada with a problematic Internet connection.                                          

Serena ask for a video for her parents and friends to see how New Dawn looks like and I combined it with a quick shopping trip to the Mini Market at Prickly Bay Marina. This was my second trip on land for about one month. I hope Gabriel like the tender ride?

Tuesday 7 April 2020: Soon after arriving in Grenada the country went into a lockdown as an UK person that flew in from the UK was diagnosed with the Corona-virus. After a few days we sailed to Tyrrel Bay on the Carriacou Island, which I have visited before and is a nice island with friendly people. It is part of the three island nation of Grenada, which also include Petit Martinique. We managed to do a small walk along the beach town and drop the laundry as well as visiting the supermarket. But the day after we had a complete lockdown as the UK person had been to a beach wedding on the island. To get back the laundry the following day we needed a special permission from the immigration officer to go ashore. As soon as we got on land two police officers were quick to stop us, but we explained we had the permission to collect the laundry, so it was OK. Back on the boat I noticed several items were missing from the laundry, but after calling the manager I was told th...