Busy Few Weeks

Just sitting here at Biras Creek in North Sound listening to the legendary Zamfire play on the Ipod while watching another 50 foot sailboat try and dock in front of us for the past 20 minutes. Its funny, they even have an African Grey Parrot onboard.

So the past few weeks have been a blur, have not had a steady internet connection to update the blog so here is what went on.

After the hurricane, we sailed over to St Thomas and on down to St Croix to view the devistation from a direct hit from the storm. Over 40 sailboats and powerboats were sunk or washed ashore, the waterfront was littered with boats smashed up against the docks or what was left of them.



We chated with the locals about charters, its pretty slow there and not much really happens on St Croix. We finally got the dingy fixed, not using it in Charleston had done a number on the carberator jets and it wouldnt run right. $60 later and 8 cold beers and it was like new again, he rebuilt the carb in about an hour.

Two nights on St. Croix was enough decided it was time to venture on to St John. 4 hours later we arrived at Coral Bay on the South East end of the island. The water wasnt very nice but the food was great at the restaraunt. The next day we headed over to Norman Island for a look at Pirates cove and the famous Willy T floating bar, not much going on there until mid November we are told.

We headed back to St thomas and got a slip at Sapphire Bay Marina to get some work done prior to the boat show.








Our first charter was a pickup at Virgin Gorda, we sailed them over to cooper island for a day of sunshine, painkillers and snorkeling. I love doing day sails as they are short and sweet. The views from the cabin of the island were dreamlike.