Sunday, November 30. 2008
Privateer Bay, Norman Island with the Adventurous Wenches
Lock up your men folk! The Adventurous Wenches have arrived! We have our very own Adventurous Flag to fly as well!
Most came by dinghy, with all looking happy to be here!
We picked up in Roadtown and the harbor was actually running quite big seas, with stronger wind then predicted. For those who know my husband, they know he is super cautious, but he said it was too rough to not anchor in Inner Harbour, so he did. And played bumper boats with this boat. He kept on just batting it away saying "it is only hitting the rubber" I was flabbergasted as I have never seen him do that before! (Ten to one, everyone on the bareboats in the harbor, was shaking their head in disgust at his anchoring skills!)
The swans looked nice on the beds today, along with the pretty sheets!
We have 6 wenches with us this week. The boat seems quite after a big group last week.
We toasted departure with our famous Promenade Painkillers....
And the ladies (wenches) enjoyed the sail across the channel....
I was feeling creative today and made my bread dough for lunch into a turtle shape. About as creative as I ever get!
We dropped anchor in beside Pirates in the Bight and activities came out left and right! The girls beat our teenagers last week with the amount of activities done in the first hour! There was snorkeling of course, and kayaking...
Betsy quickly found her favorite personal "noodle chair" that she brought down a couple years ago and left on the boat for us! (the beer is missing out of the hand but it was not far behind!)
And then the power lounger became a firm favorite as well...
We drove by Willy T's and I am not sure what is going on, but I believe every boat in the anchorage is full of only males! Our boat was popular with its all females going by to say the least...
We had a great sunset going around to Privateer..
And the first nights dinner picture. We had ribs for the first night for a change! With some yummy bruschetta, glazed carrots and salad topped off by a key lime chocolate mint parfait for dessert and more then a couple bottles of red wine!
Snapped this picture going across of Indigo Lady going in the opposite direction, as I have clients on there sailing this week that i hope to run into somewhere along the line!
Nice to see some pictures of Richard and Lisa! Lisa has cut her hair, and what can I say about Richards beard??? I think I will just leave that one alone!
Fishing is going on tonight on the back deck, but I don't hear much catching yet!
Most came by dinghy, with all looking happy to be here!
We picked up in Roadtown and the harbor was actually running quite big seas, with stronger wind then predicted. For those who know my husband, they know he is super cautious, but he said it was too rough to not anchor in Inner Harbour, so he did. And played bumper boats with this boat. He kept on just batting it away saying "it is only hitting the rubber" I was flabbergasted as I have never seen him do that before! (Ten to one, everyone on the bareboats in the harbor, was shaking their head in disgust at his anchoring skills!)
The swans looked nice on the beds today, along with the pretty sheets!
We have 6 wenches with us this week. The boat seems quite after a big group last week.
We toasted departure with our famous Promenade Painkillers....
And the ladies (wenches) enjoyed the sail across the channel....
I was feeling creative today and made my bread dough for lunch into a turtle shape. About as creative as I ever get!
We dropped anchor in beside Pirates in the Bight and activities came out left and right! The girls beat our teenagers last week with the amount of activities done in the first hour! There was snorkeling of course, and kayaking...
Betsy quickly found her favorite personal "noodle chair" that she brought down a couple years ago and left on the boat for us! (the beer is missing out of the hand but it was not far behind!)
And then the power lounger became a firm favorite as well...
We drove by Willy T's and I am not sure what is going on, but I believe every boat in the anchorage is full of only males! Our boat was popular with its all females going by to say the least...
We had a great sunset going around to Privateer..
And the first nights dinner picture. We had ribs for the first night for a change! With some yummy bruschetta, glazed carrots and salad topped off by a key lime chocolate mint parfait for dessert and more then a couple bottles of red wine!
Snapped this picture going across of Indigo Lady going in the opposite direction, as I have clients on there sailing this week that i hope to run into somewhere along the line!
Nice to see some pictures of Richard and Lisa! Lisa has cut her hair, and what can I say about Richards beard??? I think I will just leave that one alone!
Fishing is going on tonight on the back deck, but I don't hear much catching yet!
Lisa and Richie crossing the Atlantic
Well this will probably be the last blog you get from us for a while as we are heading remote, so what have we been doing since you last heard..........
I finished my cooking course, which caused me to put weight on! Its all that sampling! Richie finished his boat course, as part of it he has to do celestial navigation, sextant and all and be 600 miles off shore, so we decided to cross the Atlantic, not the easy 8 hour way on a plane, we took the 3 week 5 mile an hour route, what an adventure!!!!
We delivered a cat from Gomera in the Canary islands to Antigua, with a Skipper called Hugh and the Canadian owners of the boat, here we are fuelling up about to leave
The female owner spent the first 3 days at sea with her head in a bucket and it was flat! A worrying start to the journey, but we all did tell her to take sea sick tablets! After the first 4 days we lost the wind for the next 10 days, there was none! So we did a lot of motor sailing.
I have never read so many books in my life, the boat wasn't quite Promenade, there was no generator, so power was limited, when it got dark it was time for bed and there was no water maker, so we were very restricted on that front too! It was quite a smelly crossing! We did however have fishing....... and we did well, we caught more mahi mahi than you can imagine, apparently it is the only fish in the Atlantic, we cooked it a different way every time, I could now write a cook book "100 ways to serve Mahi!"
and thanks to my cooking course I can fillet a fish as well as Richie now!
We did see lots of dolphins which was nice and we had a big fish swim with us for a few hours!
Here I am dolphin watching
we saw some amazing skies, never got a lot of rain, most managed to avoid us, but it was all around
and we saw some amazing sun rises and sun sets, the pictures never do it justice though
While on watch one night, watching a beautiful sunset, listening to my ipod, mid Atlantic, all at peace with the world, I got my ears violated thanks to Kerry and Mr Dan (St Marys), what should come on the ipod but "Bang, Bang loulou!" certainly made me laugh though!
When we were a few days from Antigua we finally caught a fish that wasn't a Mahi, we got a nice big wahoo instead
Rich felt the need to grow crazy facial hair, its amazing what entertains you when there isn't a lot to do!
B would have been proud of that beard! Rich also did all his celestial stuff, which also passed the time, by the end of the trip he was 13 miles off the GPS using the sextant which is pretty good going there!
We finally made it to Antigua, 20 days later, it was nice to get on land, the owner thought so too as she was back to a head in the bucket for the past 4 days of the trip! We flew back to the UK that night, quite disheartening that the 20 day trip we just completed, we would do in 8 hours by plane!
We have had a few days back in the UK and we are about to leave again, this time we are heading to Papau New Guinea and I can't wait to be warm again, the UK is far to cold, but I did get to go real xmas tree shopping although it wont be half as good as my pink feather one that Kerry bought me!
So our next fishy pictures should be of some spectacular stuff............
On a final note Richie wanted to send a present to Bazza, just in case he was missing them yet.....
I finished my cooking course, which caused me to put weight on! Its all that sampling! Richie finished his boat course, as part of it he has to do celestial navigation, sextant and all and be 600 miles off shore, so we decided to cross the Atlantic, not the easy 8 hour way on a plane, we took the 3 week 5 mile an hour route, what an adventure!!!!
We delivered a cat from Gomera in the Canary islands to Antigua, with a Skipper called Hugh and the Canadian owners of the boat, here we are fuelling up about to leave
The female owner spent the first 3 days at sea with her head in a bucket and it was flat! A worrying start to the journey, but we all did tell her to take sea sick tablets! After the first 4 days we lost the wind for the next 10 days, there was none! So we did a lot of motor sailing.
I have never read so many books in my life, the boat wasn't quite Promenade, there was no generator, so power was limited, when it got dark it was time for bed and there was no water maker, so we were very restricted on that front too! It was quite a smelly crossing! We did however have fishing....... and we did well, we caught more mahi mahi than you can imagine, apparently it is the only fish in the Atlantic, we cooked it a different way every time, I could now write a cook book "100 ways to serve Mahi!"
and thanks to my cooking course I can fillet a fish as well as Richie now!
We did see lots of dolphins which was nice and we had a big fish swim with us for a few hours!
Here I am dolphin watching
we saw some amazing skies, never got a lot of rain, most managed to avoid us, but it was all around
and we saw some amazing sun rises and sun sets, the pictures never do it justice though
While on watch one night, watching a beautiful sunset, listening to my ipod, mid Atlantic, all at peace with the world, I got my ears violated thanks to Kerry and Mr Dan (St Marys), what should come on the ipod but "Bang, Bang loulou!" certainly made me laugh though!
When we were a few days from Antigua we finally caught a fish that wasn't a Mahi, we got a nice big wahoo instead
Rich felt the need to grow crazy facial hair, its amazing what entertains you when there isn't a lot to do!
B would have been proud of that beard! Rich also did all his celestial stuff, which also passed the time, by the end of the trip he was 13 miles off the GPS using the sextant which is pretty good going there!
We finally made it to Antigua, 20 days later, it was nice to get on land, the owner thought so too as she was back to a head in the bucket for the past 4 days of the trip! We flew back to the UK that night, quite disheartening that the 20 day trip we just completed, we would do in 8 hours by plane!
We have had a few days back in the UK and we are about to leave again, this time we are heading to Papau New Guinea and I can't wait to be warm again, the UK is far to cold, but I did get to go real xmas tree shopping although it wont be half as good as my pink feather one that Kerry bought me!
So our next fishy pictures should be of some spectacular stuff............
On a final note Richie wanted to send a present to Bazza, just in case he was missing them yet.....
Saturday, November 29. 2008
The end of another charter week...
Friday, November 28. 2008
Salt Island
this is a pic from last nights dinner, and although we had lots of bites and jumps, no Tarpon were landed last night.
We sailed down to the Rhone this morning, and I grabbed my camera to jump in and take some pictures.
Coming down the line...
We made it to the bottom...
I swear every single dive boat in the BVI was there this morning, and all on the shallow end. I looked like a clusterfu** down there and I counted 30 divers in my sight at the same time!
This is our groups idea of posing for a group shot...gentle, they are mostly resort divers so understandable!
Nice school of Squirrel Fish...
I had to run into town today to go visit government offices and go to the banks (today the ATM machine told me it could not give me money because of a hardware malfunction! That is a new one! Two very different sized cruise ships sitting on the dock in town today.
Tied up on C dock at Village Cay and glad to see that they are getting security gates on the docks. If this is your boat it is sunk at the dock though!
Back to the boat and we are staying the night at our favorite spot, Salt Island. The sunset tonight was spectacular...
And the gigantic Princess Cruise Ship came by later on in the evening and it looked like a lit up city...
Of course about the time dinner was to go on the table, the fish started jumping on the lines, we had a couple barracuda...
And several Jacks. Notice this jack still has the large bait fish hanging half out of his mouth!
Everyone was watching the fish life so I only had two people at the table for my two bell dinner time!
They eventually showed up though and I am now off to bed!
We sailed down to the Rhone this morning, and I grabbed my camera to jump in and take some pictures.
Coming down the line...
We made it to the bottom...
I swear every single dive boat in the BVI was there this morning, and all on the shallow end. I looked like a clusterfu** down there and I counted 30 divers in my sight at the same time!
This is our groups idea of posing for a group shot...gentle, they are mostly resort divers so understandable!
Nice school of Squirrel Fish...
I had to run into town today to go visit government offices and go to the banks (today the ATM machine told me it could not give me money because of a hardware malfunction! That is a new one! Two very different sized cruise ships sitting on the dock in town today.
Tied up on C dock at Village Cay and glad to see that they are getting security gates on the docks. If this is your boat it is sunk at the dock though!
Back to the boat and we are staying the night at our favorite spot, Salt Island. The sunset tonight was spectacular...
And the gigantic Princess Cruise Ship came by later on in the evening and it looked like a lit up city...
Of course about the time dinner was to go on the table, the fish started jumping on the lines, we had a couple barracuda...
And several Jacks. Notice this jack still has the large bait fish hanging half out of his mouth!
Everyone was watching the fish life so I only had two people at the table for my two bell dinner time!
They eventually showed up though and I am now off to bed!
Thursday, November 27. 2008
Scrub Island, BVI
Surfs up Snoopy! We woke up this AM to it pounding across the break between Sandy Spit and Little Jost. Most people would stay away but our intrepid adventurers took it as a reason to go surf it in the kayaks!
Yep, they were tossed a couple times...
We motored up around to Monkey Point afterwards, the swells were fine for that, but the snorkeling there was a bust. Everywhere on the north side is so churned up with the swell, you cannot see too much at all!
Off we went to Marina Cay thinking that we may be able to get a dive in there this afternoon, and they did and they enjoyed it. Silty, but they could see the lobsters etc. Scrub Island is not looking that attractive, but we managed to do some water skiing this afternoon off of there..
Here are a few pictures of the state of the island at the moment. I won't even comment.
They are sure building up a lot of land on the top, must be a house on the peak going up there...
The guests showed up for cocktail hour in their Promenade Tshirt finery tonight! Looks good guys...
Our Thanksgiving dinner was Ham and Roasted Potatoes and Apple Streusel Pie for dessert. I think we are all waddling around the decks, but the fishermen are keen at it tonight. We had three hits at the same time (just when I was getting dinner ready naturally!) and i understand that Bazza is playing with a tarpon on 4 lb line now, he will be in his glory back there if he gets it landed.
I will leave you tonight with this thought. It is moments before we finish getting dinner on the table. this week getting dinner on the table has usually been accompanied by catching fish at the same time. Things get a little hectic. Last night I threw the bbq tongs at Simba along with a fork that said what doneness the steaks were and said "I want them cooked" For some reason I am stuck with two men, one scottish and one australian who do not bbq. Simba almost has an excuse as he was raised vegetarian...but the Australian...I just don't know. He brings down the perfectly cooked steaks (said they all said medium rare which they were but he had forgotten to turn on the doneness fork! so they all said that anyways!) and just at that time I asked him the following. You figure it out what he thought I said and was not quite sure how to answer!!
"Do you want mashed or baked?"
Yep, they were tossed a couple times...
We motored up around to Monkey Point afterwards, the swells were fine for that, but the snorkeling there was a bust. Everywhere on the north side is so churned up with the swell, you cannot see too much at all!
Off we went to Marina Cay thinking that we may be able to get a dive in there this afternoon, and they did and they enjoyed it. Silty, but they could see the lobsters etc. Scrub Island is not looking that attractive, but we managed to do some water skiing this afternoon off of there..
Here are a few pictures of the state of the island at the moment. I won't even comment.
They are sure building up a lot of land on the top, must be a house on the peak going up there...
The guests showed up for cocktail hour in their Promenade Tshirt finery tonight! Looks good guys...
Our Thanksgiving dinner was Ham and Roasted Potatoes and Apple Streusel Pie for dessert. I think we are all waddling around the decks, but the fishermen are keen at it tonight. We had three hits at the same time (just when I was getting dinner ready naturally!) and i understand that Bazza is playing with a tarpon on 4 lb line now, he will be in his glory back there if he gets it landed.
I will leave you tonight with this thought. It is moments before we finish getting dinner on the table. this week getting dinner on the table has usually been accompanied by catching fish at the same time. Things get a little hectic. Last night I threw the bbq tongs at Simba along with a fork that said what doneness the steaks were and said "I want them cooked" For some reason I am stuck with two men, one scottish and one australian who do not bbq. Simba almost has an excuse as he was raised vegetarian...but the Australian...I just don't know. He brings down the perfectly cooked steaks (said they all said medium rare which they were but he had forgotten to turn on the doneness fork! so they all said that anyways!) and just at that time I asked him the following. You figure it out what he thought I said and was not quite sure how to answer!!
"Do you want mashed or baked?"
Wednesday, November 26. 2008
Little Jost Van Dyke
Happy Day before Thanksgiving! Look at this Tarpon from last night.. I think the fish is as big as the fisherman! Took 57 minutes for him to reel in this baby. Took a picture and let him go again....
After a bit of a walk around West End and some reprovisioning we tacked back and forth to get up to Diamond Cay to the Bubbly Pool. It was a great sail, and then they all hiked to the pool.
I understand it was about a perfect day for the Bubbly pool, not too much, not too little!
I think they spent several hours there and then walked around Little Jost to the old brothel.
We are just anchored tonight off Little Jost and we have all stuffed ourselves on steak and potatoes!
After a bit of a walk around West End and some reprovisioning we tacked back and forth to get up to Diamond Cay to the Bubbly Pool. It was a great sail, and then they all hiked to the pool.
I understand it was about a perfect day for the Bubbly pool, not too much, not too little!
I think they spent several hours there and then walked around Little Jost to the old brothel.
We are just anchored tonight off Little Jost and we have all stuffed ourselves on steak and potatoes!
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