sailing

Today we sailed from Marina Cay to Anegada.  On the way we learned how to turn the boat around in a space no wider than two boat lengths when motoring.  It’s called back and fill and it uses your prop tilt to help push you around.  Then we practiced man overboards which was a lot […]

We are on Salaway, a Beneteau 494.  There are four of us, Anne-Marie, our instructor, and Larry and Jeanne, my fellow students.  We sailed from the Moorings in road town to Marina Cay where we anchored for the night. According to Anne-Marie, the Last Resort in Trellis Bay has a comedy show on Thursday, Friday,

I’m sitting here on Cane Garden beach on Tortola staring across the cove at blue and turquoise water with islands in the background and puffy white clouds in the sky and wondering what makes it beautiful. I could sit and watch forever. On my way over the taxi driver, a West Indian, said "There’s Skyview."

Mariner Inn is nice.  I was a little worried because the reviews on TripAdvisor were pretty iffy.  But it’s been remodeled recently and my room has tile floors, tall ceilings, balcony and king size bed.  Fridge, coffee maker and hair drier.  The bathroom wasn’t remodeled with the rest.  My sink squirts water sideways. They kept

I’m on my way to the BVI!  I’m on the Denver-Newark part of my DEN-EWR-SJU-EIS trip.  As luck would have it I am sitting next to a woman from Colorado who is reading a Sailing for Kids book so I pulled out my Basic Cruising book and we had quite the conversation.  They just bought