Travel

On Wednesday, March 28th, we sailed from Anegada to Jost Van Dyke. It was a long slow sail but we more than made up for the lack of excitement later that night! A couple of other boats got their anchor chains fouled up and ran into us! When we pulled into Great Harbor at about

Belle and her husband own the Cow Wreck beach bar and they are very popular with the yacht chartering crowd.  Here’s a picture of Belle talking to Bill. The next picture is Belle’s son-in-law Alex.  He has a masters degree in music and teaches at the local school.  There are 250 people living on Anegada

Monday the 26th we took off at 10am.  (Right after our dinghy was fixed for the second time.)  We sailed directly to Anegada – I got a bit nervous at the end as we didn’t see the channel markers right away.  Anegada is surrounded by reef and there is only one channel in – if

After the Baths we sailed to the Bitter End Yacht Club on the north end of Virgin Gorda where we grabbed a mooring for the night.  Our dinghy broke again (this time a wire that need to be replaced) – again, they fixed it quickly when they opened up in the morning.  Luckily there was

On Sunday, March 25th, we sailed from Peter Island to the Baths at Virgin Gorda.  It was a long but really good sail.  We had to wait about 30 minutes motoring around waiting for one of the day moorings as they were all full and the water was pretty deep for us to drop anchor

On Saturday, March 24th, we left Norman Island and sailed to Peter Island.  We stocked up on ice at the marina and waited to get our dinghy motor replace by the Footloose chase boat.  The throttle broke and we had two speeds – full speed backwards or full speed forward.  The Footloose chase boat arrived

On Friday, March 23rd, we got our boat.  After a hectic three hours of loading all of our provisions onto our boat, Carino, a 433 from Footloose, we finally got off about 3:30 and arrived at The Bight on Norman Island at about 4:30.  We had a great meal of mahi-mahi on board and the