Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
We arrived in Jost van Dyke this afternoon around 5:00pm.
This morning we started hoisting the anchor within minutes of getting back on board at 11:00am. We were
under full sail heading for Jost Van Dyke within 10 minutes of getting the anchor up. We were all hands
for the day doing some ship work with several people working on Mr Bones caulking and sealing the
planks. The plan is to launch this boat sometime while we are here.
Sailing through the Virgin islands looks very much like the Gulf Islands with lots of narrow channels and
lots of charter boats going every which way. The radio traffic from them is pretty entertaining. We heard
one the other night that is a good example. Lynsey heard this call to the Coast Guard requesting assistance
because, apparently, the boats engine failed and they couldn’t figure out how to turn around. They were “sailing” south with their jib set and couldn’t figure out how to go North! To add insult to injury they
threw their EPIRB overboard to attract attention. Sigh.
Paul was telling me about another call he heard where a charter boat called in requesting “more anchors”
since they were out for two days and needed some more…!?! Apparently they just dropped the line over
board in the morning when they left the anchorage and since the boat only had two they need some more
to keep going.
It should be interesting here as the ship is well known and gets a lot of attention from people.
I’m on watch Friday and off Saturday Sunday so will get a chance to check it out.
Thanks for reading.
KJ
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