The Dutch built sugar mills in the late 1700вЂ™s to grind sugar cane using wind power. A few memories that stand out include hundreds of these вЂњtowersвЂќ that dot the hills on the island.ДЄt first glance they looked military but after some investigation we learned they were old Dutch sugar mills. St Croix was pretty amazing and I wished I would have written while we were there so I could remember the details better. You can see the zig-zag lines from Puerto Rico thatвЂ™s us improving our skills! Of course the sail to Grenada was a single LOOONGG sail with much less effort thanks to favorable winds and calm-ish seas. The ride is amazingly smoother and fewer bad things happen. The most important is we because slightly better sailors and weвЂ™ve started tacking into the winds instead of motoring. A ton has happened over the last 400 miles and several months but all good things. Since then, we sailed to St Croix and then down to Grenada in order to beat our insurance deadline of August 15th. Without the threat of storms, weather, other boats, emergenciesвЂ¦.IвЂ™m honestly grown complacent and IвЂ™m looking forward living in the water again next month and resume island hopping.ДЄnyway, that is my half-hearted apology to myself for not writing since July.

WeвЂ™ve been living in a Grenada house for a month and the daily/weekly sense of urgency weвЂ™ve known since 2019 is gone. The speed of time is different on land, period.

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