Green Iguana on Petite Terre May 3rd, 2017 The Petite Terre Isles were so lovely. I saw them on the chart but dismissed them out of ignorance. Then my great sailing friend Peter Wraa invited me to meet him and his latest crew in these little lost and protected islets. It would be a hard 5 hours to windward across a shallow shelf and short choppy seas, for Peter it was a long but fast sail down from Antigua.

This story story about a love triangle between British con-man, a Trinidadian young man and a Guyanese woman, a life raft party, a SCUBA search and recovery operation, rebuilding a carburetor while underway and many great sailing friends. It all started with a loose rope I noticed about 8 weeks ago. We carry a Bombard 6-person offshore life raft on Ad Astra in the event of a catastrophic failure of Ad Astra.

How much do you pay for rent? or mortgage? Between my mortgage, property insurance and utilities I was paying over $60,000 a year in Austin. Yesterday, I made a quick post on facebook when I realized that my “rent” payment here in Martinique is just 1€ for 90 days. Martinique is 15,000 times cheaper than Austin for my family. For the same home in SF or LA? Insane. This post turned out to resonate with a lot of friends with a bunch of fun questions.

Provisioning is like a RPG quest chain This devil sold me a baguette, a yummy cheese & ham croissant, and a regular croissant for just €3.90. After completing my morning quest chain, I opened the reward chest and this is what I received! €20 – 1 liter of smooth, brown sipping Rum €10 – 6 fresh Mahi steaks €12 – A head of fresh lettuce, 4 tomatoes, 1 mango, 2 tasty cantaloupes €5 – 4 carrots, green onions, 2 oranges €3.