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Nanny Cay, Spring Regatta

fter a long couple of weeks working on Kai Ohana in the Nanny Cay boat yard, Spring Regatta had finally come. I walked through the marina and saw a group of volunteers setting up for the event. A band practiced under the pavilion where I did my yoga in the mornings, and the volleyball court [...]

Nanny Cay – Haul Out

I’d been in contact with Keith LiGreci, the Nanny Cay Boatyard manager, prior to Christmas when we had first decided we were heading west through the Virgin Islands. I’d intended to haul out once again before our trip through the South Pacific and doing it in St. Martin was not an option. There were only [...]

Marina Cay

In two years of living on St. Martin, we had very few visitors from the states, but because of our work schedule, we didn’t encourage a lot of people to come and see us anyway. Once we got out on the water, however, and while we were in the Virgin Islands, we spurred my mom [...]

Virgin Gorda

I finally woke up after a two-hour nap from hell. The boat was still pitching and I decided it would take less energy to sit up at the helm and give my hallucinating father moral support than to stay in the cabin and death-grip my bed frame trying to keep me and my mattress from [...]

First Sail

he time we had all been waiting for had finally come. “Thanksgiving” weekend, as well as my birthday weekend (of which neither meant anything to 99.9% of the island’s inhabitants) was the auspicious time to put to the test all the hard work we had accomplished — to see if our efforts over the past [...]