Harlan Lachman wrote:
Ray, I missed your original post. The one other reason I know that
someone might want to charter out of BVI instead of St. Thomas, besides
the various companies, is consideration of one's crew.

I took my honeymoon sailing out of St. Thomas. My wife's interest in
sailing ended with the first day's waves. You could only tell if there
were other boats out there by looking for the tops of their masts.

Even though the sailing the rest of the trip in the BVIs was easy (as
soon as we entered the protected waters), she lost it during that first
day (and dreaded our return). The sailing in the protected waters out
of Tortola is almost always easier on one's crew.


In a Northerly swell it can get pretty rambunctious between Red Hook and
Tortola. Everything is relative though. Once we were coming out of JVD
in route to West End with a Northerly swell but the Trades had veered
ESE making steep 8-10' bumps and we were hard on the wind. About half
way we came up on a little two man sea kayak. The guy in front was
paddling away but the guy in back was talking on a cell phone. We
hailed them to see if they needed help. The reply cam back "We'll be
fine if I can just make the crew get off the phone and start paddling!"

Turned out the front paddler had circumnavigated Austrailia in a Kayak
and written a book about it. The guy on the phone was his publisher.

--
Glenn Ashmore

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