Sailing Saoirse - The last leg of our Journey to Trinidad

INSANE FISHING! The last leg - French Guiana to Trinidad After our awful experience in French Guiana, we were really happy to be headed down the du Maroni River and back out to sea again 6 days after our eventful arrival - see last weeks video if you missed it. The trip out was quicker than when we came in as we were able to choose our tides. We kept a good lookout for river debris and fishing nets and were out at sea again after about 5 hours. The trip across to Trinidad was arduous and very slow. There was very little wind and flat sea, not to be sniffed at I know, but it makes for a very boring, very LONG and frustrating sail. To say our moods weren’t great during this passage would be an understatement. It’s incredible how with sailing, no two passages are ever the same, in our experience anyway. The upside to this trip is that we had some INSANE FISHING!!! We got to Trinidad with full freezers and having eaten some amazing fish meals along the way. We started picking up weather warnings about two days before we were due to get to Trinidad and decided to put the engines on and get there as quickly as possible to miss the predicted conditions. As seems to be a pattern with us, the entry into Chaguramas, Trinidad was far from uneventful. We arrived in the dark and had to navigate our was through the boca’s whilst dealing with a strong current. We finally got close to where the anchorage is and between the extremely bright lights that shine off of the boatyards into your eyes, sooo many fishing boats that were anchored around the outskirts of the bay, ships coming and going and the 100’s of masts we were seeing in the lights - that we thought were on the water but they we actually on the hard🤣 we tried to anchor in a small spot we found on the outer edge of the anchorage. That was when we had an engine fail on us AGAIN! With ships coming at us from different directions we were trying to maneuver ourselves and set an anchor with only one engine. 3 attempts later, dragging the anchor each time we gave up. We headed back out into the bay and the boys got to work on the engine. Turns out there was a crack in the water fuel seperator, exactly what had happened with the other engine a few months before, so air was getting into the fuel system. Thankfully we had a spare and within about an hour, Denver and Colben had changed that out and we were running again. Assuming that the anchorage was totally full we decided to spend time in the bay for the night and would go in for a look at first light. It was a long night, and when we eventually got in at daybreak it turned out it would have been incredibly easy to pick up a bouy had we been able to see past the wall of fishing vessels that had been there the night before. So we are in Trinidad, safe and sound, well rested initially and now working like crazy to carry out the repairs needed before heading up into the Caribbean after the hurricane season.