In this episode, we left Dominica to sailing our Leopard 45 north. Our first stop was Guadeloupe where we were meeting friends. We've had some problems with our Victron Quatro Inverter on and off for the past few months, and it finally died. That means that we cannot use anything electrical that plugs into the wall outlets, among other things, like our water maker. And since we only had about 40 gallons of water in our tanks, we stocked up on large water bottles for drinking and brushing teeth. I hate using plastic water bottles, but we had no choice. There were no marinas where we were in Guadeloupe to fill our tanks, and filling them with 2-liter bottles would take forever.
So, we told our friends they couldn't shower every day, they had to use salt water only to flush the toilets, and we ate out as much as possible to avoid having to wash dishes. With about 30 gallons left in the tanks, we left Guadeloupe and headed to Antigua.
We love English Harbor. It's like living in a 1770's naval village. We were able to get water there, but we had to go to St. Martin to get the inverter fixed. So, off we went.
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