LinoCat

This is the approach to Sopers hole marina on Tortola, BVI. The water is deep (17m) and clear. Moorings are installed here due to the depth. The amount of moorrings also makes it tricky to use the own anchor and so we are also picking up a mooring here. There is a nice breeze and good weather and the marina has a nice restaurant, cafe, shops, supermarket etc. We also meet Ralf and Helmut with the La Medianoche, they are anchoring right behind us and yesterday evening we had a BBQ on Linocat with them. They brough 2,5 liter of rum punsch and guess what the bottle was empty soon and it was very good. The sund is shining and so we get almost 50A of charging current during the midday hours. Nicely painted house The marina area You remember that it was impossible to get a french gas bottle filled in St Martin? Well, here we got one but look at the shape of the bottle. Completely rusted! UGLY YUCK! Check out how our bottles looked (to the right). That is what i hate about exchange of bottles...

The anchorage in Trellis Bay. We are just leaving LinoCat to check out the beach bars. One of the iron structures used for the famous fullmoon parties here. Unfortunately there is no fullmoon in the next days :-) Dinghy dock and beach bar seen from a Cafe latte. nice Want to lear surfing? A PAINKILLER, the famous cocktail here. I wanted to buy only one but it was happy hour so i got two anyway. I asked him if he can make a "half" but it was not possible :-) The restaurant at "last resort". Until three years ago they even had a donkey there. Lani loved the cat.

The 3 nights in Virgin Gorda Yacht Harbour costed 100US Dollar, that is an OK price including power and water (we used at least 500Liter). This is a snapshot from one of the bars in the marina. The marina also has a supermarket which opens every day at 7 and has whole wheat bread in an OK quality. It is a bit fluffy but good. We are running low on butane gas since we did not get the bottles filled on french St. Martin. We will have to ask around in Tortola. This motor yacht was not too big and looked like it is very practical but still nice. I have to find out who the manufacturer is. No, i do not want to buy one :-) Now we have rounded Marina Cay island but it was very rolly and so we diverted to Trellis bay. This bay is packed with mooring so there is almost no space to anchor. We grabbed a mooring they are asking for 25USD for it. WOW I will post pictures later.