Today we sailed from US Virgin Isles, past the US Virgin Isles and into British Virgin Isles. Confused yet? Due to expired US visas we had to go straight to BVIs, do not stop at USVIs, and get a new visa. It was just a day sail so no hardship.
As we pulled into The Bight, Norman Island, BVI was heard a shout on the radio "Jackster, Jackster, Amarige". Our Canadian friends, the couple that we very first met in Georgetown, Bahamas, then spent 3 weeks together in Luperon and the same couple that went ahead to Samana to arrange our tow had spotted us. Great people. We anchored next to them and caught up over a cold beer.
Culture shock coming from cruising country to charter land. Far noisier, considerably less boat skills and more intoxicating liquor consumed. We watched a hybrid catamaran, it has the double sponsons, two engines but no mast of sails, come in at full throttle, the guy on the bow with the boat hook pretending it was s golf club and swinging it wildly while rock music blared. They over shot the mooring buoy at speed so thrashed it into reverse, and straight at us, to pick up on the return. Fortunately their more skilled friends who had already moored dashed over in their dinghy to help them and they were secured without causing any damage. Phew!
Lucky for us they crashed and burned early in the evening and all was quiet.
As a footnote, the last time we were here was October 2007 when we were chartering as our first test to see if we could live the cruiser lifestyle.
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