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Jost Van Dyke, BVI to St. Thomas, USVI: April 15, 2008
Weather Conditions: Wind 10 knots ENE. Clear Skies.
Leaving Great Harbour caused me the most apprehension I’d had about leaving an anchorage since St. Martin. I had gone through The Narrows and the Windward Pass (never a good labels to see on a chart), the Pillsbury Sound (I guess the rocks would be soft here) and [...]
Joste Van Dyke
e actually hadn’t intended to go to Jost Van Dyke at all, most of the crew had already been there at the Bubbly Pool on a forfeited race boat during race week at Nanny Cay, but we met a gentleman in the boat yard who changed our minds. Kevin Gray, the Project Director for The [...]
Nanny Cay, Tortola, BVI to Jost Van Dyke, BVI: April 10, 2008
Weather Conditions: East Wind 5-10 knots. Clear Skies.
We headed out of Nanny Cay Marina after a morning of anxiously re-installing the transmission’s heat exchanger (it blew an o-ring the night before) and testing all the other engine-related systems. As we motored through the narrow inlet bordered by the jetties that were so menacing just weeks [...]