megayachts in the BVI

I forgot my nightly dinner picture last night, Chicken Pasta Pesto we had and they did pretty good considering I always make mounds of pasta!

We were not up and moving at 7 this morning, but they managed to spend several hours in at the Baths, David took these pictures again...

Must not have been too many cruise ships around as there were not that many people other then the million boats that were there...



They enjoyed their climb around there, and we made a trip into the yacht harbor for a few provisions as well as picked up a spare boat hook behind the boat that apparently a monohull had messed up getting totally a ball (obviously) and after 20 minutes they motored away in disgust and left there boat hook in the water!

It is Xmas time so that means that it is time for some of the large mega yachts to show up on our shores...Pelorus is the 14th largest yacht in the world, as is owned by Roman Abramovich, Russian Oil Billionaire and buyer of English football teams....The yacht apparently has a crew of 40 and cost $300 million to build!

And then even larger is Rising Sun, about the 5th largest in the world with 82 rooms on 5 levels, owned by Larry Ellison of Oracle. We see this yacht quite a bit here...It only cost $200 million to build though!

The guests particularly were amused at the pictures of our chinese laundry ship in front of the yacht....

And just in case you wanted to look in Rising Suns garage, there are jet ski's and power boats galore....

These boats dwarf a lot of normal megayachts, like Starfire with is about 120-130 feet and you can charter it for a quarter of a million dollars a week plus expenses, if you are not quite in the Pelorus league....

We anchored up by Biras Creek out of the wind somewhat, and looking behind us the Sound looks quite empty...

This is a new twist on Bazza napping today, although notice, he is still napping with his computer, just a different position! Poor man, on the way up here he had a fan belt go on the dive compressor and the engine within about 5 minutes of each other so while the guests played and had massages at Bitter End, he fixed all his toys....

We saw the guests off for cocktail hour ashore and then I was busy getting steak ready for tonight. It turned out it was way too windy to barbecue, so we did them inside, but I also made yummy baked potatoes just like Outback Steakhouse, rolled in Olive Oil and Butter, rolled in Sea Salt and then baked for an hour and a half. Man, they were tasty!