French Bridge

We left Grand Case and moored off Marigot in Simpson Bay waiting for the French road bridge to open. When our slot finally came the radio went dead and we just steamed through anyway. A catamaran was in front of us and we followed it into the lagoon. Our plan was to moor at Lagoonies Marina for the engine repair. As we approached the marina the water depths got very shallow. At one point we were down to 0.1 of a metre clearance and panic set in. The port and starboard buoy markers were random and very difficult to follow. As the radio wasn't working I made a frantic mobile phone call to the marina to ask which side of the red buoys we were meant to be on. Luckily the guy called Bernard who was very helpful told us to put them to starboard and we slowly got more depth. We had just enough draft to reverse onto the berth and let the wind blow us in.