bvi captains log blog

Boat papers for Promenade. Duty paid papers for Promenade. Yearly Trade License renewal. Bill of sale for the Bingo Bus. 3 passports, (Australian, Canadian and UK), US Visa's...

Well they have in common that they should not get wet. Never mind SIT In water for OVER 2 days. They are also among the most important papers we have....

Other things, like credit cards, money, business cards are not as important....

I was not sure whether to laugh or cry.....



And I know that many of you are going to think I did this (as it generally would be me!) but it was BAZZA! He was distracted a couple days ago and left the bag once he checked in to the BVI in the dinghy. It sat in the water on the bottom of the tender since then.


The funniest thing, is watching how ticked off he is with himself...as he says, "he just does not do that stuff"


Isn't age a wonderful thing!

Replacing one passport from the islands is bad enough, replacing three and a US visa, well, let's just not think about it tonight!

Received an email from the Charter Yacht Society talking about the Nautic Swan Victoria sinking this past weekend.

"I regret having to share the news that member yacht Swan Victoria sank on Saturday after hitting a submerged object.
Thankfully, Klaus and Martha are safe having been air lifted to Puerto Rico. They were enroute to Panama."



From Sail World:
Two crew have been found floating in the Caribbean in their six-man life raft.

They were found more than 24 hours after they broadcast a distress signal that their yacht, the 48ft Swan Victoria, a Club Swan yacht member, had sunk after hitting a submerged object.

Her crew, Skipper Klaus and Chef Martha, who took holidaying sailors for charters around the Caribbean, were experienced professional sailors.

The U.S.Coast Guard rescued the pair, who had been sailing the yacht from St Thomas in the U.S. Virgins to Panama. At the time they were positioned around 100 miles southwest of Puerto Rico when the collision occurred on Saturday.

You can click here to go to Sail World to read the rest of the story.

Our thoughts are with them. You hate hearing these things....

Time to get up another entry here. We have been out playing a lot. The accounting that i have to do has kind of gone by the wayside the last few days. The boat looks like a bomb went off in it too! But we had fun....
Those who follow me on facebook have already seen some of these, however, others of you haven't. We have had a lot of good fortune diving and finding some unusual bottles and "things"
You know it has been exciting when even Bazza goes diving with me!

Diving out of the power boat is so much easier then diving out of the dinghy...He just needs longer whips so he can fill the tanks from the boat compressor without having to take them out.

This is a neat little bottle that simply says LONDON on it. I have no idea what it was for.


Torpedo Bottle. Have a few of these now. They contained soda water from the mid to late 1800's and say To her majesty double soda waters (that means double the carbonation)


This is the first one that we have found like this in a Torpedo bottle, shaped just a bit differently.


Cantrell belfast, medicate aerate water this one says. Another type of soda water.. Interesting that it is from Ireland.


The one on the right is a champagne bottle. The two in the middle are beer bottles. The one on the left may be a beer bottle as well, but I am not too sure.


This piece of pottery was pretty with the pattern and the fact that it has the HMS logo...


Bazza is not sure, thought maybe this was an old knife perhaps?


FInd all kinds of whole plates around St Thomas....


This was a neat find. Sitting right on top of the sand, a small musket ball....


Assortments of finds...




This little octopus must have been in a bottle. He was not too happy to find himself on the back of the boat let me tell you! I put him back!




I was quite excited to find this old pipe. First one I have found and it again, was found by just scouring looking for minute stuff instead of big stuff. I thought I had one up on Bazza...


That is, until he came up with an old sword. HMmmmmm......


I swear he will find rubies encrusted on it!


We had moved back to Great Thatch a day or so ago as Charlotte Amalie sucked. It is flat as can be here, and BUGGY! No wind, lots of rain for the last week...lets just say that i am staying in the A/C at night! We were out for a run in the power boat this afternoon and the sky was pretty as we came back just on sunset...


It is not all play though, which you would understand if I showed you pictures of our boat, we did manage to get new anchor and chain on the boat, so we no longer have rusty ones that mean we clean and derust the boat every time we pull it up!! THAT is nice.....


This is another interesting bottle that was very encrusted when I found it. I was not sure if it was going to be old or new like a soya bottle when I found it. I thought maybe new, but surprise it was VERY old. I have no idea what it is. I will have to look it up in my bottle book!

A different view of it...


So, that brings us up to tonight. No accounting has gotten done, but not like I can spend a lot of money sitting at Thatch now can I? We are doing the end of year clean out of the boat. What can be thrown out, given away and de cluttered. I love decluttering. Every time Lisa comes back she buys new Xmas things for the boat and themselves. Each time I come back I throw them out! We had quite a lit bit of them I found hidden under the bed today.....