Alice Chris and Louise had to get off the boat this morning to take a ferry into the USA as they don’t have the correct visas. This left me Carl the 2 Americans Laura and Marieanne on the boat with the skipper Patrick and mate Kieran. We had a lovely sail covering 19 miles from British waters into USA waters into st Thomas. We anchored up but couldn’t check in as the port was closed. Someone advised us to check in at the airport so we took a taxi here to be t...

Left Norman island to sail to jus van dyke. Did some snorkelling in the morning which was amazing saw so many fish just off the reefs Went to the famous soggy dollar bar which had a lovely beach and was so chilled

Left leverick bay in Virgin Gorda and went via the baths to manchinel bay cooper island. An 11 mile sail in total. The baths were amazing there were smooth rock formations were the emerald green water was able to collect in shallow water. We couldn’t take the dinghy all the way to the beach so had to swim the rest or use the kayak. What was lovely was the fact that it was so quite and we were the only ones on the beach for a while. There was a small bar and a g...

Saw the sunrise during our night sail and it was lovely to have egg and bacon sandwiches for breakfast. We had sailed to Spanish town Virgin Gorda to leverick bay Virgin Gorda coveting 8 miles today. Took a while to check in. We couldn’t use the marina to dock as so many boats were on their side or up side down. So sad to see. Had a beer in a bar that had also suffered hurricane damage. Dinner on the boat spaghetti bolognese made by Chris

We now have a full crew had a man over board drill I was the Rescue one so was hoisted over the side. Moored up for a while and Laura Carl and I went for a swim off the beach. I made a sweet potato and chick pea spinach curry for dinner. Then at 5pm we set sail for our next destination. This meant an overnight sail. Carl and I were on Kieran’s watch with Marianne. We covered the watch from 10pm til 1am then 4am til 7am luckily we stayed dry and missed the rain....