Sailing Reel Riddim

Back at it Reel soon! Excited to be back on board, especially the kite board 🤪

It’s been a while since there was any Reel Riddim posts. Had a lot going on with family and time back in the U.K but super stoked to be heading back to her in a few weeks!
Like always, a serious amount of boat work needs to be done before she gets launched from Grenada Marine which I highly recommend as a safe and cool place to store your boat ashore in Grenada 🇬🇩. I’m sure she’s been looked after too. 2nd hurricane season there now.

Some big plans for adventure this year.. let’s see where the wind takes her!

Just some random pics of Martinique. We had to hire a car to get some jobs done and incorporated a little road trip round the island. Visited the HSE rum distillery and a few french shops like Decathlon etc on the way back.
My thoughts on Martinique... although it’s completely green, lush and beautiful, the island in terms of the Caribbean is quite flavourless and doesn’t have that Caribbean charm like other islands. It’s great for boat parts and getting food stocks from the french supermarkets but I don’t have much else to say about the place other than good french bread 🥖 and over crowded anchorages ⛵️.
Looking forward to moving on soon to St Lucia where we will be joined by Paul Naldrett and Rachel Williams Was Hellen to explore the Grenadines!

Headed north up to Fort De France Martinique with friends Dave and Mary on their lovely Nijad yacht “Dragonly of Dart”. We left Royal Clarence Marina Gosport with them 2 years ago on the same voyage to the Caribbean.
Cat vs Monohull age old race.. yes we left them downwind but trying to get upwind they sailed whilst we motored. They were having fun healed over in 20+ knots of wind whilst we enjoyed the shallows and cut throughs enjoying the scenery with a coffee.

So this happened just after we left Barbados yesterday! Caught my first Sailfish and man it was a big one! Yeahhhhhh boi!!! 😃😃😃
It ripped off my line totally unexpected and disappeared over a mile behind the boat whilst the reel was smokin! I couldn’t stop him, It took 2 hours to get in and I was completely knackered with burning arms from the fight.
I’ll estimate this one at around 80-90lb. Big game Fishing in the tropics.. man it’s awesome!
Antony Paijmans and Ralf Meyer have a bit of this! They call me Big game G round these waters now! 😂😂😂