Gustavia We were very fortunate to have our friends from Charlotte, Jill and Leonard, join us for a visit. They are experts on the island of St. Barth’s and they share our passion for wine collecting. We did some sailing while they were here, but spent most of our time visiting the beautiful beaches on […]

A popular pastime in St. Maarten is going to the beach to watch the planes takeoff and land. Like most Caribbean islands, the runway is just off the sand and visitors to St. Maarten often stand at the edge of the road so the jet blast will blow them back into the water. What we […]

Our New Year’s celebration was kicked off with the arrival of Tim (Larry’s brother), Teresa, Alyssa and Moriah in St. Maarten. During their stay, we toured St. Maarten by car and sailed to St. Barth’s. The island of St. Maarten is divided across the middle, the northern part is French and the southern part is […]

25 December 2007We pulled into Simpson Bay, on the Dutch side of St. Maarten, just after sunset. Again, we arrived at night, making anchoring difficult. But luckily, our good friends/next-door neighbors from Simi Valley were in the bay on Aquila (their Hylas 49) and they helped guide us in. After spending the night and morning […]

St Maarten Neatherland Antilles With sub-tropical storm Olga headed our way, we ducked into Red Hook Bay, St Thomas for some cover. While this sounded good, it turned out to be a bad decision. Red Hook faces east and with the strong east winds around Olga, anchor holding in the harbor was poor at best. […]

We spent December in the British Virgin Islands, mostly in Nanny Cay Tortola, while we were redoing some work on the boat that didn’t go as planned over the summer. This included a few weeks in a local hotel that we renamed “Villa Roach”. On December 12th we celebrated the biggest, brightest and last full […]

While the boat bottom was being painted in Tortola, we took a ferry over to St. John in the US Virgin Islands to see the island from the land. We had visited St. John more than 10 years ago and wanted to see some of our favorite spots from that trip. The Hyatt Grand at […]

Great Harbor Jost Van Dyke BVI While cleaning the bottom of the boat before leaving the US, we found a lot of growth. It had been almost a year since she was painted, so we had Berkeley East hauled and the bottom painted at Nanny Cay Tortola. With our new bottom paint we made a […]