charter yacht

I don't suppose I have ranted about anything for at least a week...(don't double check on that with my crew!) So, I think I will go back to one of my favorites tonight, CCT Boatphone.
Doubly ranting tonight as I cannot keep a connection for more the 3 minutes to save my soul the last couple days!
I blogged earlier about having to replace both my phones, or maybe I didn't. Who knows?
Anyways, while getting the car washed in town, afterwards when we got back in it, I put both my phones in the console in between the seats where I normally do...Only to find that they had left a large puddle of water in there and subsequently, both my phones starting really acting up and i had to replace. The Iphone, well, considering Apple had just come out with the new 3G, and i had the original, it was due for a change anyways. Only thing is, I, along with many others, am having a hard time activating it, as it tells me it is waiting for activation forever...and I am only in US air space a couple times a week...
But, I digress, back to the rant on Boatphone. They sold me on a new phone that was waterproof for 15 minutes and they said, literally, that I could throw it across the room! Great I thought on a boat, a nice little samsung. The first time I went to charge it, I just about choked as if you see this picture below.....

The adapter, is well, weird. My first thoughts were, oh, it is the UK plug style, no problem, we have those on the boat as well... Normal thought hey, after all, sometimes we are the BRITISH Virgin Islands... But it did not fit in that plug, so I asked Bazza and he tells me it is a FRENCH plug!!! With a US adapter for me to stick on the end. Of course, I shook my head, what else would I do? so I have practically a 6 inch adapter sticking out of the wall (ok, maybe I am exaggerating...a little!) It appears though, that the connections are "dicky" and most of the time I think it is charging, nope, it is not...Grrrr.....

Back to the guests and charter... We had a great couple snorkels around Beef Island this morning and then looked at the channel. Gulp! Going up SEAS to Virgin Gorda was not looking like that much fun, so we decided that a sail down to Little Harbour on Peter Island was a much better idea. Good thing we did, as even then, although a great sail, we had a couple who were hanging onto the edge of the boat...

I was ambitious as can be, and jumped in the water outside Little Harbour and s
Swam back into the anchorage. How was it? Murky as can be! Lots of Angel Fish around though...

Saw several turtles that all took off and a little Sting Ray. That is the extent of the pictures on that pathetic photo dive...

Moving right along...Little Harbour was nice and flat, with just a couple Puerto Rican boats anchored. Our guests went on a "hike" to the old house. Notice the mickey mouse hat? guess where they just spent a week at??





The next entertainment was feeding the gulls by hand....





Well enjoyed by the guests...

Quite a bit of wakeboarding was attempted, it kind of is akin to water boarding I think!

I made conch fritters for appetizers tonight, thinking that I had made rather a lot, and within about 3 minutes this is what the tray looked like! Empty!

I was in the galley making up a fruit tray for dessert tonight before supper, and I thought, for the first time in months, "oh, I might as well do Brent's fruit salad for the morning, since i have everything out"
He always does on up after dinner for the morning. I chop, and rinse and build while thinking to myself "hmm, not sure if we will have enough fruit to last the week or not". Brent comes down and says "you are not making fruit salad are you?" and I said "yep". He says, "I already made one" I laugh, as he is often playing these kind of jokes, until he opens up the fridge and pulls out a fruit salad bowl freshly made filled to the brim with about the same things I JUST made another fruit salad out of. The first time that he has ever made one before dinner!

Hey, it is the end of the season folks, we are running out of things to talk about here, never mind blog about! I tried to take a picture of Brent and Simeon being nice to each other, but Simeon disappeared as soon as I raised the camera...

A dinner of seafood, some fishing and good night to all...


I cut this out of the BVI Beacon this past week, it is a couple articles that were written about the recent dinghy thefts around the BVI lately, thought it would interest some. Here it is in PDF format.

Brent told me tonight that he had literally NOTHING he could do...I told him that there was nothing he wanted to do as there was always lots of cleaning on the boat to be done! He could not disagree with me there...