Nice bottom!

Well the boat went back in the water on Friday afternoon. It was too late in the day for us to go anywhere, so we stayed in the marina until Saturday. The boat looks great. The bottom was painted, the stainless polished, the freezer fixed, and the stuffing box was repacked. Mary Elizabeth got some serious TLC.

Bill and I enjoyed ourselves as well - it was a break from the norm staying in a hotel. We actually got to lounge by the pool one afternoon. And of course we had a really special day on Friday!

On Saturday morning we got up early and finished some chores before sailing to White Bay, Jost Van Dyke. There was no "room at the inn" so we continued on to Cain Garden Bay - which was virtually empty. It has been pretty rolly in the mooring field, but it is sunny and beautiful.

Unfortunately we have to go back to Nanny Cay either tonight (Sunday) or tomorrow morning to have the stuffing box checked again (it is dripping too fast and is really hot). We have to be out of the BVI by Tuesday since that is when our "visas" run out.

The general plan (right now!) is we are going to spend a few days in St. Thomas before heading to the Spanish Virgin Islands and / or Puerto Rico. We are thinking that we are going to go NORTH for the summer instead of going south to Trinidad. So we would hopscotch from Puerto Rico to the Dominican Republic to the Bahamas to Florida. Nothing is set in stone yet, but that is the tentative plan....




Before and after shots of the prop / rudder.