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Sailing from Les Saintes to Rivière Sens, Guadeloupe, aboard the Beneteau Oceanis 440 Corail, the skipper runs a crew-training exercise with three female crew members — Marion, Caro, and Alexia — requiring them to handle all maneuvers independently: weather checks, sail selection, anchor raising, and helming in 17–18 knots with gusts to 25.1:21 The crew deploys only the genoa, choosing to leave the mainsail furled given the gusts.2:26 At the lighthouse near Rivière Sens the crew wants to change the anchorage plan mid-approach; the skipper uses the moment to stress checking charts and local information before altering course, noting that Antilles anchorages change year to year — mooring buoys appear and disappear, and the ones present at Rivière Sens proved to be privately owned.10:10 The anchorage rolled heavily overnight from 1.5–2 m swell wrapping around the lighthouse headland, with 25-knot gusts confirmed by rigging vibration.10:58 Anchoring depth was just over 12 m with 40 m of chain deployed.15:45 The windlass remote control was accidentally torn from its wiring during the approach; the skipper repaired the wago connectors dockside.8:02 The group also hikes La Soufrière volcano.19:07 A diver nearby freed a genoa sheet wrapped around a neighboring boat's propeller shaft.24:24

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