Arrived at Nanny Cay Marina right around 4PM to a fairly large welcoming committee at the Dock – most of our new neighbors jumped up to help bring us into our slip securely.  Great job by Captain Kirk. First order of business for Kirk – hose down the boat and get all of the salt water off asap.  My first […]

Recalling we only have 1/2 a windscreen as we sailed off of the ship, thinking- how bad can that be?…if the winds were 10-12 knots that would have been just fine.  However they were blowing about 25-35 knots with seas of 4-6 feet.  So about every 15 minutes, it felt like someone was dousing you with a 1/2 bucket of […]

 Week of March 7th,  We are to meet Salted Rim in St. Thomas on 3/11 at 6:30am.  Lisa is still positively “positive” with COVID with an unwavering dry cough (remnants of COVID) SO here’s the deal:  No Negative Test =No Entry into the BVIs.  I had COVID three weeks prior but still tested positive 4 days in a row.  Finally […]

So in advance of the ship arriving in St. Thomas, Kirk had to sail the Salted Rim from Sarasota to Ft. Lauderdale where she would be floated on to the ship for safe passage to St. Thomas.  I was not 100% recovered from COVID and doing a 3 day sail straight through was not appealing at that time (or dare […]

Kirk and I did a reconnaissance mission in October 2021 to the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands in search of a marina.  We nailed down, much to our surprise, one of our favorite marinas called Nanny Cay in Tortola (BVI).  Next mission, get Salted Rim there in January, as we secured the slip even though the marina […]