We left Deshaies in light winds and managed to sail most of the way to Little Bay in Montserrat. We managed to catch a really nice dorado but whilst I was filleting it, the mainsail fell down. We furled it manually into the boom and took a look at the main halyard. The splice had failed! This splice was less than 3months old and done by the rigger in Marina Rubicon as he declared the old splice "no good". Lesson learnt - don't trust the rigger! Looks like he hadn't done a long enough bury by any means. Maybe he should have done a Brummell lock too... We carried on under genoa alone until we had to furl that too. The wind angle had meant we'd swept up the east side of the island, rather than the west past the old capital. The power and devastation of the volcano is very apparent even from the east. Little bay was a little rolly, but not bad enough to make us press on to Antigua, though a few boats came in and decided not to stay. We were anchored in 12m of water, but it was so clear we could see the anchor! We had organised a tour of the island with Joe Philip and we can thoroughly recommend him. His tour is full of "wow" moments as you see a scene in front of you along with the iPad photo of how it was. For instance, the old Springs hotel pool: We had a really nice meal at Timeout right in Little Bay before risking the swell to relaunch the dinghy. Fortunately, we didn't get too wet getting back onboard :)