Sunday 4 January 2015

The British Virgin Islands (27th December 2014 to 6th January 2015)



We left St Martin and set sail for the BVI's under full sail on the 27th of December. It was a good passage arriving at Virgin Gorda at 0130hrs.
Eric caught 2 Mahimahi so he was happy. It was the first game fish we had caught since leaving Trinidad in October. We realised that all our gear was too big. The fish we caught in the Pacific were much bigger and once Eric downsized his rig we were in luck.
He has kept us pretty well supplied while at anchor though in Trevally and snapper.

After a few hrs sleep we checked in at Gun Creek Customs and Immigration then moved up to Prickly pear island off the Saba rock resort.
The British Virgin Islands are the largest cruising grounds for both bare boat and crewed charter boats in the world and one can see why with predictable weather, clean waters and safe anchorages. The population is only approx 25,000 so there are many places that are not populated where you can anchor if solitude is what you're after. The popular places are full of day mooring bouys but at night if one chooses to stay, there are places to anchor or one can pay for a night mooring.

We have made a movie of our adventures





We are currently waiting for a weather window to leave for the Bahamas, which looks like it will be Tuesday the 4th of January. The trip should take us 4 days to the southern end of the chain.

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We met in 1971 and it was Eric's dream to build his own yacht and sail the world. This became a joint dream but it was not until 1994 that we were able to start building. "Erica" was launched in 2001 after 7yrs building her. It then took us 5 yrs to prepare her and ourselves before leaving NZ to see the world

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