In this video, Caribbean Border Crossings by Cruising Yacht Today, after 6 months of hurricane shelter in Grenada we are FINALLY sailing north again and into...

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last time

on sailing bellachandra we made a video

about what it's like to live aboard and

cruise

full-time in the caribbean with our

yorkshire terrier

zeus if you're new to the channel

i'm dan and i'm noelle and we're sailing

bella chandra

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press that button having been anchored

in the southern anchorages of grenada

for an entire month we were eager to get

moving again

now that the hurricane season was ending

as kobit 19

has been on the downswing here in the

caribbean bubble

while entering st george's we passed our

very good friends on sailing vessel

starlight as they departed for curacao

on their way through to panama and then

on to the south pacific good luck guys

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in order to leave we are required to get

two pcr

tests for covid19 here in grenada and

obtain our port clearance

from customs and immigration

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within just a couple days we arrived

back in kiraku in order

to do our final preparations before

leaving grenada

so we're finally leaving grenada we had

our port clearance done

and we had to get a pcr test here

in keraku which is part of grenada

unfortunately it was pretty expensive

i'm not really sure why because

everywhere else we checked in the

caribbean had a fairly

affordable pcr test our next stop is

saint lucia we were going to go to st

vincent and the grenadines

in order to go there we would have to

get this expensive pcr test

then have another pcr test on arrival

there we would also have to pay all the

port entry fees

and permits and in the end it's just

much too expensive for us so we thought

this time around we would just skip

st vincent and the grenadines and sail

straight on for st lucia which is the

island just above st

vincent in st lucia they only charge you

40 ec which is about 20

canadian for your full entry so

basically we're traveling north through

the windward islands these are all the

islands we skipped when we left st

croy and sailed straight for grenada due

to all the covid19 restrictions at that

time

now that hurricane season's pretty much

over with we're ready to start moving

north

so today we're just waiting on our

veterinary permit for zeus to enter st

lucia and we're also waiting for the

results of our pcr tests which we had

done a few days ago it's going to be

an overnight passage so we want to have

some snacks and some food prepared ahead

of time

the wind angle is not really the best

i'm hoping it clocks around a bit

the more the wind clocks around the more

likely we'll have a downwind sail

we do have a window of time that we can

travel

before our pcr test becomes invalid so

we really have to get going really soon

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we have finally left grenada finally

i think it's been five or six months now

wow it was growing on me i could see

myself living in grenada the people are

really relaxed

and laid back and i really enjoyed my

time there we're underway

about time this is the first time we've

done a night passage

in like five or six months i'm actually

a little nervous we're off to saint

lucia

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yay

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we're just coming up on st vincent now

and the sun's going down

it's getting dark so we'll be night

sailing tonight

and we should be in the shadow of saint

vincent or on the leeward side of saint

vincent where

the wind should be more manageable uh

but they are calling for some

big gusts later on and possibly some

squalls

we're a little concerned because when we

turn on our radar to look for squalls

we're just gonna have st vincent there

and we may not be able to see the radar

so we'll have to reef and uh take it

slow

and hopefully in the morning we'll be

out into a safer spot on the other side

of st

vincent and very close to st lucia which

is just the next island up but there's a

gap

between saint vincent and st lucia that

i'm hoping we can sail that in the

morning

we'll see

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it is a new day and we are just arriving

in st lucien now

pretty decent sail overnight actually we

had the motor a little bit when we got

up

alongside st lucia we're motoring now

the wind just died

but the trip between st vincent and st

lucio was amazing we were flying through

and we were doing eight knots

like all night it was crazy it was so

fast and so exhilarating

so we ended up only motoring just a

little bit

which is perfect so we're just coming

close to

rodney bay we're going to go in and do

our check-in for st lucia we'll do all

our customs paperwork present our pcr

tests which are negative which came

by mail yesterday so

we're all set

yeah just here at the end of our trip i

mean we're almost in rodney bay

and here's the first major squall of the

entire trip

and uh i don't know we'll see how bad it

is we might have to sail through that to

get in

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all right we've arrived in st lucia and

we're anchored and it's done

and we're good yeah

we have to check our anchor to make sure

we're in sand i think we are

we went through this really big squall

just coming in which was kind of crappy

but i motor sailed through it

and uh we came out the other side right

into the anchorage actually and just

dropped the sails and that was it so

yeah first overnight passage in the

caribbean

since we left for grenada about six

months ago

only just minutes after setting the

anchor we were visited by gregory

he's a local farmer who sells fresh

produce from his boat

which itself looks like tarzan's jungle

hideout we bought some really nice local

fruits from him

a really good way to start off our first

day in st lucia

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