Last night we had a major squall, which was nice as it cleaned off the boat but again reminded us we have 3 leaking windows which i really need to try to do something about. the weather was not looking good for the 4th of july parade and we thought it might be canceled but we still headed in to grab a bloody marry and coffee at our favorite restaurant and plan our lunch. as we sipped our drinks...
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so having missed “dinner” yesterday it was all we could do to hold out until lunch for the grouper sandwich at Andy and Cheryl’s. We where planning to try the grouper sandwich but when we arrived there where 3 to choose from. grouper burger, jerked grouper burger and stuffed grouper burger. the stuffed option included grilled onions and fresh lump crab along with the jerk sauce....
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so today the plan was to head into our favorite restaurant for a grouper sandwich. unfortunately we realized they had mentioned they where closed on mondays. undeterred we decided to head back to the naked bar. this was a good call as most everything on the non-naked side of the beach was closed at 10am. after waiting 2 hours for the kitchen to open we shared a burger at the naked bar and had...
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so today started even earlier, somehow we both found our selves up at 6am. aimee wanted to go around the corner to orient bay for the “sunset beach bar” 20th anniversary party. it was 10nm of bashing into the wind but at 6am it seemed pretty calm so i agreed. no sooner had we got out of the anchorage than the wind started to really kick up. i was up at 2800 rpm with the turbo kicked...
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in spite of our late night arrival we where both up just after sunrise. aimee was doing her yoga again so i decided to head into budget and go find internet. i had been unable to get bgan going on the passage and i wanted to get an update on a tropical “trough” 600nm east of us moving in our direction. i headed over to lagoonies and fortunately the “trough” had...
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The original plan was to spend another day “working” here in virgin gorda and then head to St Marteen to try to deal with the outboard and pick up our dingy chaps at sunset for an overnight sail. Alas when i got up i discovered the weather window had moved in with the sub 1 meter seas ending at midnight tonight rather than noon tomorrow. aimee was happily doing yoga so i let her...
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