Glenn Ashmore wrote:

Has anyone stopped at Ginger Island? Especially tried to get into the
bay on the East side?

You probably will not believe this but my cousin, a neurosergeon who
owns a house on Virgin Gorda, is thinking about buying the whole
island and doing what Branson did on Necker. I mentioned that there
is no good anchorage but he pointed out the bay on the East side. I
have never been around the back side so can't really say from first
hand knowlege. but I am afraid that being open to the Atlantic it will
not be the best place to put a marina.

Have any of you poked in there?


Have never stopped there. Looking in the VI Cruising guide (8th edition
-- '97-98), the one line description (P 137) is "The island of Ginger
has no tenable anchorages." Under diving, they tell of 15-20' high
mushroom coral and graduated shelves ending at 70-90' in a huge sand
patch....

As I look at the chartlettes, the eastern bays (marked "The Sound" and
"Wedged Bay") show shallow with coral, with nearly 400' hills close by
on either side. Boats and shore equipment would be open to prevailing
winds & waves. None of the islands on that side of Sir Francis Drake
Lake have facilities on that side.

Looks like the better place is in South Bay on the western side.

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Jere Lull
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