LinoCat

LinoCat was loaded onto the MV Amstelgracht. The Amstelgracht is a carrier which carries other goods and the yachts are only additional cargo. Under www.marinetraffic.com you can see the Amstelgracht if she is in reach of a coast. Expected arrival in Mallorca is around 2. June 2010. Thanks again to Peter and Tina from the Vanora and also to Jeff Balentine.

This is the Yacht Haven Grande in the bay. Big motor yachts and fancy Gucci stores. Not really my cup of tea. Crown bay marina is full so LinoCat will stay at the anchorage. There is a huge commercial laundry near Crown Bay marina where we dropped 4 big bags of laundry for around 40USD. If you want a taxi take one of the "safaris", these open trucks. Within the city you pay 1 Dollar and just hop on and off. Iguana in Crown bay. There was a parade from the young police recruits and other groups. They played cool musiy and were marching and dancing. It looked nice and they had fun. Lani got 2 clip on earrings from a local girl when we used the safari taxi. The girl was maybe 4 or 5 and wanted to give them to Lani. Cute!

After a nice snorkeling dive with Ralf this morning we lifted anchor and La Medianoche and LinoCat sailed with a nice tailwind to St. Thomas. We are now anchored in Charlotte Amalie harbour. It is a little bit rolly but a nice breeze and only 2 minutes to the town. Even the small Coast Guard dinghies carry machine guns on the bow... A typical shopping street with a bar. One of the neighbours from the anchorage again. The water was so clear that you could see them from above without a mask. Ralf checking out the edge of the reef. 2 friends

La Medianoche is directly behind us on a mooring. A very nice and familiar view. Now we are also missing "Bagalut" with Walter and Brigitte and " Vanora" with Tina and Peter and Chico. Also "Jalan Jalan" with Liz and John and "Norm the storm" with Erika and Norman would be cool. Today we went by commercial ferry to St Thomas. We started at Westend which is directly opposite the marina and left at 10.15. After a 50 minutes ride along nice beaches of St John we arrived in St Thomas and saw the US flag flying. They checked our passports, we had to give fingerprints and they took a digital image of us and stamped the passport with an entry for 3 months. They told us to keep the green exit card and now we could come back with LinoCat. But first we want to visit the island "Jost van Dyke" tomorrow or the day after. Here you see one of the anchorages of St Thomas. You can also take a seaplane from here. We saw 2 of them starting and it looked...