On a sunny windy Thursday we pulled up the anchor and left Prickly Bay. We were not going far, only around the south corner to St Georges Anchorage, but we finally were able to raise the sails!
Oh how exciting for all of us. A bit rusty I may add, and it had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the half bottle of rum the night before. We turned into the wind and raised the main. And what a main she is, clean, crisp and BIG. We had 18-22 knots of wind and were to be running straight downwind, so we bore off to a Starboard tack and sailed away! With only our mainsail up, we were doing 6 knots.
Because of the angle of the wind, almost direct downwind (DDW) we didn’t unfurl the jib until we rounded the corner past all the beautiful homes, cliffs and the grand St Georges University Medical School. At rounding Pt Salines, where the airport sits, we were on almost a close reach, and we unfurled the foresail. I wish I could say that it increased boat speed, but it really didn’t. but we looked good!!! We sailed straight into St Georges, Grenada, with or sights on the two cruise ships in the dock. We knew town would be busy then. 
We took anchor closest to the harbor entrance than all the other boats, in 5 meters of clear blue water, had some lunch and then ventured into town. Duty Free shops awaited.
On the peak of St Georges is the old Fort, with its commanding view of the town, where before the invasion of Grenada, Maurice Bishop held his government.
It was in this old Fort that they were lined up along the wall and assinated during the upheaval. Fort George was built from 1706 – 1710, on an early battery erected by the French in the 1600s, and originally named Fort Royal, it was renamed Fort George in 1763, in honor of King George III when the British took possession of the island. In 2004 a hurricane came thru Grenada, and cause much devastation. According to the story, the clock stopped at the time the hurricane hit.
Grenada is not a cheap place to live or cruise. Some things are good deals, but you really have to look when you do your shopping; watch what you buy, and shop like a local. Plantains are a plenty, and Colin has never had them before. Glad I was able to get ONE recipe from MAMA. A boat that Colin sailed with before came into the anchorage the day before we left prickly bay and offered us a tuna,… we enjoyed that dinner immensely. And at duty free shops, we got two 1L bottles of rum ( one coconut, one dark) for US$26! Some luxuries are just not going to happen here, like chips… a bag of Lays or Ruffles is about $8 CDN. Who needs chips anyways? ( read- Wayne-O)