January 29, leaving St. Maarten

Today Vagrant finally left St. Maarten. I think we arrived here on the 23rd of November. Met a lot of great people and have had a lot of fun, but it feels good to be finally moving on. Next stop, Statia.

This is a typical morning exodus from Simpson's Bay Lagoon. We were in line with a catamaran, a sport fishing boat, four medium sized (60 to 100 feet), and one mega yacht.

When the bridge opens everyone files out into the bay and heads off in their own direction. Our heading was about 150 magnetic. It turned out to be a close reach so we rolled out the jib and off we went.