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 […]
Since arriving in Tortola, we have been cruising around the BVI, enjoying many different islands including Virgin Gorda, Cooper Island, Salt island, Peter Island, Norman Island and Jost Van Dyke. We dove the wreck of the Rhone, a 300′ Royal Mail Ship sunk in 1867 where we ran across this four-foot’ barracuda. Hung out on […]
18 25.411’N:64 37.073’W Berkeley East crossed the Caribbean 1500 finish line in squall conditions just 8 days after departing Virginia. We had an exciting passage with both highs and lows. When it was all said and done we were the 13th boat across the line, despite a few setbacks. We had great sailing, covering over […]
