charter yacht

Thump, Thump Thump...As we pound upwind in lumpy seas to get to Salt Island for a dive and then onto the Baths...Lots of wind, why are we thumping instead of sailing? Well because one more time we don't have the time needed to sail in order to get everything in the guests want to do...
I am basically here holding my desktop on the table so it does not fall off!

I usually do a cooked to order breakfast on board, i find it has worked out better as I am not making a bunch of stuff that guests won't eat, and those who always like hot breakfasts can have them and the same with light breakfasts. I always know with this charter to put on a lot of eggs...and for your reading pleasure here is what my cooking order was this morning.

3 eggs over medium, bacon and toast
Cheese omelette
1 egg hard, 1 pc of bacon, 1 piece of tst with a slice of cheese
Oatmeal with 2 pcs of buttered tst (diet thing, he says he is going with eggs tomorrow!)
2 western omelettes with toast and bacon
1 ham and cheese omelette well done
2 orders of Fried sunny side eggs, bacon and toast

Last nights kitchen looked interesting too, nacho's, ribs, potatoes, cheese and lots of it all. Not too many vegetables in sight for this group!



Joe is a great jokester in this group and Connor is not quite sure what to make of him. When Joe brought the sun tan lotion, Connor decided he was Making His Stand and refused...



This ALMOST turned our well, the Pelican taking off last night from the water...



Got heavy cream in my order this week to make ice cream, half way through making it this morning I realized that it was totally solid. Sigh. Life in the islands!

I went in to see Bazza's workshop and boat on this turnaround, I had not been in it for a couple weeks. I was absolutely gobsmacked! WHERE did he get all this stuff from? Was most of it on the big boat? He is like a little squirrel and has workshops and bits everywhere we live! I looked at all this in the shed and thought "guess we aren't traveling to other countries in the Caribbean too much"





Bazza mentioned that we could have given all the children on of these LARGE suitcases that you have to pay a ton of money to take on a plane nowadays, instead of the small duffels and then we buy a new one every time. Can't argue with that!


Part of the storage locker looks like a Home depot with sinks and other stuff waiting lined up to be installed on the yacht...I never knew we had a dog though, looking at the moist and meaty box...but maybe it is rations for the boys?



And I just never knew he had this many tools!



I also noticed that there were things that were pirated from Promenade that Felix is busy installing on Buoy Boy.....! The nerve...

I was cooking dinner a couple nights ago and Bazza pulled this out of my hair. He says it is called a stink bug. I have never seen one before, and yes, I would have freaked if I realized it was there!


We came into Marina to turn around a couple days ago, and lets just saying, I was not seeing too many spots where I thought Promenade was going to fit!


But apparently, we were going to fit to the right of True North there in the far right with our nose mostly in the mangroves. I would not have personally felt comfortable being able to put it on there, we could barely see any dock to hang off of until we got past it, and the rusted shopping carts sticking out of the shallow water not that far in front did not inspire confidence. We have been stuck in that corner before...


But Bazza managed to do it! Putting our dinghy practically in True North's cradle...


Well, we got half a boat on the dock! And of course getting out we mired around in the muck for a few minutes, before getting ourselves into deeper water..Always hate being the spectacle in the marina!


In other news, a missive from Conservation and fisheries came around giving us dive operators and our employees permission to use slings etc on the Lionfish that are found in the territory.


Mr. Bertrand Lettsome (CCFO) has decided the lionfish problem has come to a point in which dive operators (and their current employees only) do not need any exemptions for direct kills of lionfish (lionfish only and only by way of spear, sling, bbq fork, etc, not by chemical or explosive materials). Mr. Lettsome is using his authority under the Act (see below) but please be aware, this is only for dive operators and those with current work permits under dive shops in the BVI.


I know that most dive operators are seeing Lionfish in more places then not nowadays....

Something that always fills my heart with dread, and I retreat to my cabin or go to town (I chose town today...) is cockpits that look like this...


Although, I have to say that I like how nice the boat looks afterwards...and today the top decks were painted. By the time we go on charter Saturday all the top decks should be painted....


I also hear that all the new hatches and windows for the yacht are in St Thomas. This is another piece of good news, as, truthfully, a charter boat should not have windows that look like this!


These windows have flexed and cracked so much they needed replacing so bad, but we had to have them all cut to size up in the states and then sent down. A project every few years...


So, hopefully next break I will have new ones, although I am told as soon as we pick them up there is a couple that are being replaced immediately...


Now if all the new sinks I bought this fall would make it onto the boat.......preferrably while I am in a bank line up!