LinoCat

This was the overnight anchorage of LinoCat and Medianoche. Once the sun went down all the other boats left and as we expected, we were the only ones anchoring directly near this beautiful island. Medianoche at the anchorage. Sundowner with Ralf and Helmut on LinoCat. We killed the rest of our Campari bottle and some of our Piton beers.

LinoCat moved to Green Cay, a smal island with a beautiful beach and a nice reef with good snokeling. La Medianoche with Ralf and Helmuth is also here and on the beach we met a swiss couple and i chatted with them for a while. They have tried out a catamaran the first time and they are amazed about the size and sailing capability. They have been sailing around for 2 weeks on the BVI´s. Lani enjoyed the sand and the water and was of course crying when we left the beach for lunch. I am sure she will fall asleep very fast for her afternoon nap and i would not be surprised if her daddy would do the same :-) Life is good and this looks like the Caribbean!

Yesterday we spent half the day to get the our permit for the BVI extended. And it was raining cats and dogs. The rain was so heavy that many streets were flooded. It reminded me of the monsoon season in India. Back on the boat we left for Jost van Dyke, an island named after a pirate. The population ist less than 225 people but trust me, there are many more mosquitos than humans on this island! The clouds were so thick that our GPS took ages to get a fix and so i was sailing in the traditional way and happy to still be able to reach the bay i wanted :-) Just when we wanted to anchor Ralf from Medianoche called and he was 2 bays to the south. So LinoCat pointed its nose south and we headed to the Medianoche in Diamond cay, 2 miles south between Jost van Dyke and Little Jost van Dyke. Anchor was dropped in 4m of water and the water is clear. After a beer on the Medianoche we had noodles and went to bed early. Today we want to check out another place but we do not know which one yet. Che...

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...

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.