With Captain Dave’s departure early this morning we are now on our own. It is just Teresa and me.  Let’s hope we can remember most of what Capt. Glenn and Capt. Dave have taught us over the past several months.

Sea Rose is on a mooring ball at Virgin Gorda.  We need to “clear out” at customs to leave the BVI for our trip to St Lucia.  It’s a little unsettling to leave Sea Rose unattended.  In the past, Cap. Dave would usually babysit her while we went ashore.  We hope she is here when we get back.

Ashore in Virgin Gorda heading for the customs office.

We cleared customs yesterday and headed out for St Lucia around 2:30 PM.  We anticipated a rather peaceful night sail, but what we got was the complete opposite.  Teresa got seasick and that left me at the helm all night getting tossed around with no sleep.

I made the decision to head for shore and calmer waters, in this case the nearest island, we finally have Saba island in site in the early morning.

Saba island did not have much to offer as far as calm anchorages was concerned, so we motored on to the next island, Statia.  It looked promising, but Teresa was beginning to feel better so she wanted to press on to the next island, St Kitts. She was down, but not out.

Aaaah, St Kitts and a place to get some much needed rest.  We arrived at sunset and dropped the anchor in a rolly bay.  Not ideal, but it was much better than what we had been experiencing.

I think we sold the boat about 10 times in the last 24 hours.  The trip so far has not been what we signed up for.

The next day, we left St Kitts early.  We decided to hug the coast line the rest of the trip in hopes of a more comfortable ride.  We have done very little sailing, motoring most of the way because the winds were straight on the bow.

We encountered a lot of squalls, most were harmless, except one big one.  Winds jumped to 35 knots and the rain was sideways (yep, we sold the boat again).  The auto pilot could not hold its course on one engine, so I had to start the second one to keep us on course.

After every storm there is a rainbow.  The french island of Guadeloupe.