Upon leaving Marie Galante we learned yet another lesson. We had been paying attention to all the fishing buoys around these islands. Marie Galante had many more fishing buoys than I had seen at other islands. We definately needed both eyes on the seas to keep an track of all the fishing buoys, they are very hard to see. 

With all these fishing buoys I did notice a pattern. The fishing buoys were all located at the end of a contour line. (in other words in the sea depths), which we could see on our chart plotter. Fisherman also have access to these charts and probably choose these locations because there is going to be bigger fish cruising these areas looking for smaller fish to eat. If we could move away from these lines we would have less buoys to dodge.

We have been using the B&G Chartplotter with Navionics installed. Blair kept having to run our routes in reserve order. This made it very confusing because it wasn't giving us estimated time to arrive or distance to arrival. I'm not sure what was going on, but I asked if I could give it a go. We had plenty of time for me to practice "Playing" with the chartplotter, as we were between Marie Galante and Dominica. It took several hours, but I am finally able to get our routes on the Chartplotter to move in a forward direction. Yippee! Another skill set to add to my tool box.