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Don and Coco-Nutz arrive – 11 June
I wrote a great entry about don and coconuts but alas it was deleted by mac mail cheers, roger
read moreBack to Culebra – 10 June
In spite of our long bochi day we where up bright and early this am and decided to get out of dodge and head north back to culebra. We wanted a little chill time and we dont seem to be able to to stay in one place more than a week. it will be interesting to see if this ever changes. we left town before anyone was up and after about 2.5 hours motoring to weather had a great sail up to our favorite anchorage off the east end of culebra. it was amazing how fast palapa was with all the bottom growth removed, we where doing 7.5 kts in 15 kts of...
read moreBochi Tournement on Sun Beach – 9 June
After spending a few days recovering from the Larry Sherri event we where ready to get back to activities. The reality was we spent most of the days at lazy jacks working and using their internet and most of the evenings at lazy jacks enjoying rum and cokes and margaritas and meeting the “town”. After about a week we pretty much new everyone so one evening we invited everyone out to play beach bochi around the corner. in the end we only ended up with don and brad and as everyone works in the service industry and their days off...
read moreFinal Larry and Sherri day
[s] [d] 5/31/2012 [t] final larry and sherrie day [l] Viequas Sun Beach [a] roger [b] this morning we again sent the girl off “shopping”. they took the dingy this time and larry and i got to work right away on the hull. we got most of the “hard” growth as larry likes to call it and began on the green slime. this was actually harder than the hard stuff which generally came right off. we got 90% of everything complete before we declared victory. see the “after” picture below. the only thing left is aimee and i...
read moreLobster Dinner!
[s] [d] 5/30/2012 [t] lobster dinner! [l] Viequas Sun Beach [a] roger [b] First thing in the am we headed over to sun bay after dropping the girls off to go shopping. The water was warm and clear and we got the hooka set up and go to work. Larry and Aimee had been working on the waterline all trip but the bottom was a mess. Barnacles etc everywhere. Larry and I alternated between plastic scrapers and spatulas for the first pass. we ended up exhausted and covered with bitts of squirming banecall, yuk!! the good news was half way through...
read moreRoger’s 39th Birthday
[s] [d] 5/28/2012 [t] roger’s 39th bday [l] back to Viequas [a] roger [b] Well this am in spite of it being my b-day I still had to do a bit of work. I was supposed to have finished some web pages for aimee for a call at noon but i was a bit behind with the larry visit and everything. we sent larry and sheri ashore to “shop” of course they called back to say they could not find any market but had stumbled into a rum bar. about this time the internet stopped working just as aimee was trying to send a giant file 5 minutes...
read morebirthday eve
[s] [d] 5/27/2012 [t] birthday eve [l] St Thomas US VI black beards castle [a] roger [b] larry was still hung up on charollete amille this am so we agreed to motor 5 hours around the island for him. what can i say we really wanted the tip! actually we only had to motor 3 hours until we picked up a mooring on the east end of st thomas. very nice, like a mini two harbors with warm water. more swimming and rum and cokes and did i mention larry has been slowing working on the bottom every time he is in the water. really a model guest and so far he...
read moreback to the virgin islands
[s] [d] 5/26/2012 [t] back to the virgin islands [l] St Thomas US VI [a] roger [b] so this am the winds where light so we agreed to take larry back to relive his first sailing experience in the virgin islands. we started out with a passage through a reef. i was pretty confident based on the charts so far that we would have no problems. lets just say we will not be doing this passage again. larry did a great job spotting coral and directing me around it but the charts where completely off! after about 4 hours of motoring we arrived in this...
read moreSUP surfing!
[s] [d] 5/24/2012 [t] SUP surfing! [l] culebralita [a] roger [b] after another delicious aimee egg and pork breakfast we headed over to cubralitra for a day of topless bochi and snorkeling. we picked up the perfect mooring just off the beach and swam to shore. i forgot the girls tops making the bochi game even more fun. alas larry and sheri, supposedly amateurs eked out a win. we let them go off for a snorkel while we policed up the beach and brought everything back to palapa. it was getting a bit rolly so we decided to head back to the...
read moreday 1 of larry and sheri visit
[s] [d] 5/24/2012 [t] day 1 of larry and sheri visit [l] culebra [a] roger [b] the plan today was for larry and i to go get groceries and then get under way. i am not sure whose idea this was but it turned out to be not the best. between my hangover and larry’s arthritis we and both our lack of attention to detail we brought back about half of the requested items. in spite of amiee’s grumpiness over this we decided we needed to get underway. the original plan was to head up to cubralitra where i had done my turtle watch event a few...
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