Well what have been up to since the last update. We headed out to St. Martin in the company of Laima (Beni & Rick from Tremblant) and Tonica (from Nashville, Tenn.). We left in the middle of the night to ensure a daytime arrival in St. Martin. On the way we 
had a pod of about 20 porpoises frolicking around the boat for a little while. We entered St. Martin on the French side but the swell in the anchorage caused us to move to the Dutch side the next morning and enter the lagoon later. We have seen the occasional mega yacht up to now but what we saw at St. Martin was just incredible. There were somewhere between 20-30 yachts in the 150-200 foot range and a number of sailboats of the same size. We didn’t like St. Martin as it wasn’t easy to get to the beaches and we definitely did not want to go swimming in the lagoon.
We parted company with Rick & Beni in St. Martin. They were still waiting for a part to come in and also they wanted to renew acquaintances from previous years. We headed out by ourselves for Nevis and St. Kitts w
here friends on Unchained had agreed to meet us. On the way we were treated by the sight of two whales at the surface smacking their huge flukes and creating splashes that were a sight to see. Nevis had a nice town but the anchorages were not great. We could do very little water activities. The volcano on Montserrat was active and blowing ash into the sky and some of it was falling out on our boat. What had been a clean boat up to now got pretty grungy. Also air quality was the pits. After a few days we decided to head back to the Virgins where the water is great and we can get off the boat at any time.
We left Nevis, checked out at St. Kitts, as the two islands use the
same customs officers, and headed northwest to the mountainous island of Saba. We overnighted there regretting that we couldn’t spend more time exploring. There was a forecast for a north swell with 12 foot seas and the anchorage we were in was unprotected from this. We left before sun up and we crossed under motor in some of the flattest seas we have ever seen. Again we had porpoises playing around the boat. We arrived back in St. John in the early evening into a bay we were quite familiar with. The only hiccup was that the mooring balls were all taken and we had to anchor overnight before proceeding on the next morning to clear in with US customs.
We will be hanging around the Virgins now for the next couple of months with still plenty of bays and areas to explore. Hello to everybody we hope you are all well.
had a pod of about 20 porpoises frolicking around the boat for a little while. We entered St. Martin on the French side but the swell in the anchorage caused us to move to the Dutch side the next morning and enter the lagoon later. We have seen the occasional mega yacht up to now but what we saw at St. Martin was just incredible. There were somewhere between 20-30 yachts in the 150-200 foot range and a number of sailboats of the same size. We didn’t like St. Martin as it wasn’t easy to get to the beaches and we definitely did not want to go swimming in the lagoon.We parted company with Rick & Beni in St. Martin. They were still waiting for a part to come in and also they wanted to renew acquaintances from previous years. We headed out by ourselves for Nevis and St. Kitts w
here friends on Unchained had agreed to meet us. On the way we were treated by the sight of two whales at the surface smacking their huge flukes and creating splashes that were a sight to see. Nevis had a nice town but the anchorages were not great. We could do very little water activities. The volcano on Montserrat was active and blowing ash into the sky and some of it was falling out on our boat. What had been a clean boat up to now got pretty grungy. Also air quality was the pits. After a few days we decided to head back to the Virgins where the water is great and we can get off the boat at any time.We left Nevis, checked out at St. Kitts, as the two islands use the
same customs officers, and headed northwest to the mountainous island of Saba. We overnighted there regretting that we couldn’t spend more time exploring. There was a forecast for a north swell with 12 foot seas and the anchorage we were in was unprotected from this. We left before sun up and we crossed under motor in some of the flattest seas we have ever seen. Again we had porpoises playing around the boat. We arrived back in St. John in the early evening into a bay we were quite familiar with. The only hiccup was that the mooring balls were all taken and we had to anchor overnight before proceeding on the next morning to clear in with US customs.We will be hanging around the Virgins now for the next couple of months with still plenty of bays and areas to explore. Hello to everybody we hope you are all well.
