bvi captains log blog

for those interested in these types of things, here is the breakdown of what Yacht Haven Marina in Charlotte Amalie is charging (us anyways)

Dockage: $1.60 per foot per night
Dry trash removal $5.00 per day
Security Surcharge $5.00 per day
Splitter Rental $15.00 per day
Electricity .50 per KWh
Electricity SURCHARGE .25 per KWH
We did not take on water so not sure what that is, the bill for two nights came to $374.00 and we received a $20.00 discount for being a VICL member, so about $353.00
Our Marina Bill in Puerto Del Rey in fajardo drastically increased this year. It was $2.70 a foot per night as opposed to $1.50.
Our friend Janice, just came back from diving on the Aggressor in the Galapagos. She is about exactly my age, so she did listen to me when I told her how COLD it would be in the water!

She, now like me, has a ton of very expensive dive gear that she will never use again. I keep on meaning to get around to putting mine up for sale on EBAY! So if anyone is going to the galapagos and is a petit Janice size or a not so petite Kerry size, we have very gently used wetsuits!!
She found a nice Frogfish there to take a picture of.

And look at this brand new little Sea Lion

I think I liked her pictures of the birds the most. I especially like the Blue Footed Boobie bird!







Janice, I look at this picture of you and all that goes through my head is the refrain "I am diver, hear me roar" I truly want to see you wearing this on Promenade next May!!!

Another friend of mine, geoffrey from Dolphin Expeditions in Bimini is just wrapping up his season (they go out more in summer when seas are flat) and this is picture of Dolphins that Tita took on the yacht, it must be a truly amazing experience!

And our daughter in law is 6 months pregnant. they have decided to call her Ella Sandra! I think she looks wonderful!!

Now that I have caught you up with everyone else, lets see what we are doing. My nice clean shiny boat that I spent days on my knees with a scrub brush now looks like this! Yeek!!

On the other hand though the boys were busy putting back on the shiny new trampoline and it does look very pretty indeed!

This is looking out at Fat Hogs Bay from our slip, a whole new area for us to explore....

and looking out into the channel. It was a very pretty day today. I have to rush into town this morning as Bazza had paid the boat insurance for next year yesterday...with the wrong bank account check! (and you know that we are just not talking about a couple hundred dollars or so here now don't you?) I called them this morning and they had already put the check in the bank (no time wasted there!) so off I sprinted to go switch funds around. Well, sprinted may be the wrong word, drove in the car is closer to the truth. Anyone have a mental picture of me "sprinting" down East End here to get to town? No, I did not think so! Got to town to find out that i had left my wallet on the boat! Natch!!!

This is looking down the dock from our new T head dock. As you can see, noone around us. Do you think there is a reason for that?


Our power has been off a bit here on dock, and I thought I remembered on land that there was rotating schedules for different parts of the island to be dark. Could not find the info, so I asked on TTOL. I truly received some funny responses back all in this vain!

I live in East End and can verify the schedule is this for electricity going off:
1. Normally when I'm in the middle of a shower.
2. About halfway through Heroes
3. Just when I'm ready to put something in the oven
4. About 10 seconds before I'm ready to save a really big spreadsheet that I've spent all day working on.
5. When the temperature reaches 96 degrees