Holding my wine and reflecting on the day, I had to ask, "How does one live down here year round". I mean, the sun is relentless, and sand keeps popping out of strange places.
Back to today. We got out late, around 10am. Probably due to the excessive partying and dancing by someone who shant be named. But the name rhymes with Bandra. There was no rush I suppose. We were figuring out what to do with the day. This was a crossroads where we tried to nail down whether we could do a trip over to the USVI. This was our original plan, but we found that it may be more cumbersome than we thought. We'd have to go through customs on both ends with a charter boat we didn't own. Then we also weren't sure where to best go through customs in the USVI. After some back-and-forth we decided to stay in the BVI's and sail around some more. The winds were perfect today; about 15 knots. We initially reefed the sails to REEF1 and tested out the sails from our previous failure. Eventually, we let the entire sail out and we were cruising just swimmingly.
The goal today was Guana Island (White Bay). We reversed the direction we had originally sailed up until today and will arrive back at Road Town in 3 days.
On the sea, we found everyone was out and about enjoying the wind. We also found every time we were making a tack, a boat would appear in our way or coming in our direction. This gave us good practice in right-of-way situations, but it was also a bit annoying. I was tempted to break the rules and see if I could be "That Guy". But better heads prevailed.
We sailed for 6 hours in the sun before reaching Guana Island, where we found a mooring ball, in a bay Sandra could do some snorkeling. I for one am not coming out from below deck until the sun goes away: battery is getting low.