Well we made it! Three weeks and two days to cover around 3000 miles.
A very good crossing with good winds and no nasty stuff around so that was good. Made full use of our spinnaker sail which is like a huge kite and flew this for most of the crossing so now we have a big rip down one side due to flogging in light winds!! Have managed to get dock space at the Moorings so Peter sorted a hire car today and took the spinnaker to the sail loft at Quantum Sails in Nanny Cay to get repaired as they said they could finish the job by Monday. We are having a new Bimini made by Greg at the Moorings sail loft who
assures us he can finish the job next week. Peter wants to buy a new dinghy as the one we have is old an worn and patched so much that it needs constant inflating.
Have around two weeks here in the BVI before we need to leave to sail down to St Lucia to meet our crew for the World ARC. Originally thought crew were flying in on 15th so we booked 3 nights in the Rodney Bay Marina for 14/15/16 Dec to accommodate. Have now received e mail to say crew fly in on 13th!! Will have to change Marina booking!
It was great to be greeted with a warm welcome by so many of the Moorings staff who we regard as friends. Have lots of work to do on Trompeta before we leave here so need all the help from friends we can get!
We eventually worked out the SSB radio and how to get quick weather forecasts so that is good as we will us this a lot during the World ARC.
Have had a good old fashioned meal out tonight of English fish and chips at Fort Burt which was excellent and we also had the company of Dave and Dawn too!!
