Winding Down a Great Sailing Season

Folks,

As you can see in the image above we’ve spent the last few days of this year’s trip sailing from Jost Van Dyke through the scenic Gauana Passage and the Camino’s,  down to Cooper Island then back up to Spanish Town.  We’re winding down another great season on the boat and by far our most adventurous.  As many of you know we’ve overcome adversity a few times but all in all we’ve been very fortunate.   We departed our familiar Florida waters last November 14th so we’ve been out almost 6 1/2 months and logged around 1500 miles.  Next Tuesday we haul out at Virgin Gorda Yacht Harbour here in Spanish Town, BVI.  Before we depart Tookie will be prepared for storage and tied down snugly on the ground for some much deserved rest during storm season.  We pounded the crap out of her in some of the weather on the way and she responded by taking very good care of the crew.  We’re a little nervous about leaving her this far away but she’s in good company with a lot of our friends boats right here in the same yard.

We’ve still got a lot of photo’s to add to the site and several entries about friend’s that came to visit and some of the exploring Robin and I did ourselves.  We haven’t nearly seen all there is around here and we’d still like to do some of the islands further south.  So we might leave the boat here another year or we might just explore everything here thoroughly and then return to the US next year.  We haven’t made our minds up about that yet and have a few months to think about it.

For now our focus is on the storage preparation which is several days of pretty hard work.  Then we’ll relax a couple of days at Leverick Bay and St Thomas before heading home June 6th.  We end this trip on a high note that we made our goal and we’ve had a great time and we’re looking forward to getting back home to see family and friends for the rest of the year.  Thanks for checking in with us on this blog and we hope to fill in the missing entries after we get back to the condo.

As another day closes it’s starting to sink in that the sail of a lifetime has come true for us.

Best regards,

Chris and Robin