Sailing Saoirse - Turning back SOUTH for hurricane season 🌪🌊

We turned back south from Antigua towards our end destination - Trinidad. We wanted to get south for hurricane season and to try to get Saoirse hauled out and safe as early as possible in the season. We planned for a good enough weather window to allow us to get to Grenada while stopping every evening to anchor for the night. We planned the distances and travel time perfectly, we didn’t get to any of our anchorages after dark. Our aim of the game was to enjoy the last few days of sailing on Saoirse together as a family, as stress free as possible, which meant no night passages 😂 We stopped in Guadeloupe, Les Saints, Dominica, Martinique, St Lucia, Bequia, Carriacou, and Grenada before we set off for our crossing between Grenada and Trinidad. We know that the crossing between the islands is always a stressful one because of the current that pushes you around and towards the territorial waters of Venezuela. Luckily for us, the current didn’t seem to push us around, it just seemed to slow us down a little bit. With some pre planning, we planned to go through the “strongest” area of current while it was at its weakest according to forecasts. Our trip south was beautiful and a great way to end our beautiful sailing journey as a family. With very little stress, breakages, and fighting😉, we made our way down the islands as a great team. It was an emotional time as our “journey” slowly came to an end the more and more we headed south, we were lucky enough to be able to stop at some of our favourite spots for one last time. It is not the end of our sailing journey, as we all prepare to head in different directions, who knows what will happen and when we will be back on the ocean again. Thank you for watching with us 🧡