The Best Made Plans...

Tuesday, 11/19, to Monday, 11/25

The plan was to sail to Anegada, stay two nights and position Adventuress for the 70 mile motor sail to  St Martin. 

 

We had a lovely sail from Jost to Anegada.  Anegada is totally flat so about 3 miles out we began to see the whispy pine trees on the shoreline and we arrived mid afternoon in time to order our spiny lobster dinner reservation and take a nice swim.  The bar-b-qued spiny lobsters were the best we ever had but the dancing exceeded all expectations!  John and Dave treated the crowd to their “rock and roll” moves and ability to sing all of the words to the “Oldies”.  Chuckie (as in Berry) Hornbach  and Twinkle Toes Knight  were definitely crowd pleasers with their dancing and singing.

On Wednesday we moved Adventuress to the western most end of the island and anchored for the night.  Thursday morning….Strong winds, stormy weather, big swells, wind on the nose and the coup de grace… dirty fuel!  Not a good day to motor sail to St. Martin.  We turned around and sailed to Spanish Town and made arrangements to have the fuel polished at Sea Cow Bay on Monday.  No problem…let’s play!

Friday we sailed to the Baths,

 

 

swam ashore and hiked to the Top of the Baths for a spectacular view and great lunch.  We then sailed to Haulover Bay at Cooper.  (My niece, Jesse and her husband remember their stay at Haulover!)

 

On Saturday we sailed to the Soggy Dollar at Yost to treat Dave  to the “Original Pain Killer”.  Unfortunately they weren’t serving the Flying fish sandwich but the food was great. 

 

My college roommate who lives on St. Thomas, Donna, visited with three of her friends on her motorboat “Happy”. She came bearing gifts…..a case of ginger beer and Dirty Salt and Vinegar chips….yippee!  

 

 JFK and Dave showed their skills at swinging the ring on the peg  and all had a fun time. 

So here we are, sittin’ at the dock, having our fuel polished.  Weather is still a NO for heading to St. Martin so we will hang in the Virgins until Thursday when Dave will Fly home.

Love to all,

Nancy and John with Dave Hornbach

November 25, 2013