Great Thatch and Jost Van Dyke on the first day of charter

We are back on charter! Picked up all our men for this charter, and the weather is lovely...



Everyone sat around for a bit and got acquainted, as we had a few first timers on this charter...

Then we put my son Chad to work right away, with him complaining the entire time how we was sweating so much as it had gone from -40 to what felt like him to plus 40 in 24 hours! We had a lovely spinnaker run down to Great Thatch Island...

And had lunch underway. Thatch was lovely and we tucked into the corner for some snorkeling...

Chad and I went off to explore some garbage on the beach, it looked like big items that were not there a week ago. Still a ton of plastic bottles though...

Must have been remains of a boat washed up there, we found a kayak...

Beach balls, fire extinguishers, pumps, a couple gas cans....



This is looking from the beach up to Little Thatch and the West End of tortola...

Walked over to take a picture of the Salt Pond, and it sure smelt like a salt pond too!

A rare picture, Chad taking a picture of me on the beach! I think I have lost a pound or two believe it or not since coming back to work this fall...Only a billion more to go....

We made our way over to White Bay on Jost, which was nice and flat today. Lots of people there a well!

Of course we were packed in like sardines in there, all sense of seamanship goes out the window there with everyone getting close to the beach...

We sent everyone off in the dinghy to the Soggy Dollar Bar...

This little dinghy which is obviously the Soggy Dollars I thought was very cute...

Then it was on to Great Harbor, where the guys had meetings and did some work...

We had dinner (look at those smiles, some of those guys have posed for this picture before and just know to smile broadly so I will quickly go away and let them eat!)

It takes 4 people to make a football pool square thingy for the game tonight! We have many chiefs and one Indian....Everyone has gone into Corsairs to watch the ball game now and I am about off to bed!