Friday, January 7, 2011
The winds and waves settled overnight and the stay at the Leverick Bay dock was very pleasant (they’d also relocated me in the lee of the two mega yachts which helped calm things down). I woke early and started doing some of the chores that I’d postponed over the days of dinghy diving and by 9am I was ready to depart, but I’d loaned my dinghy to Michael and he was far away on his anchored boat. When he arrived I donated my old 9.8HP Tohatsu to his Haïtian relief cause with the understanding that he’d use it until the season was over and he headed downwind again. He wanted to see if the engine could be mounted to his old rowing dinghy and I transferred to the fuel dock, filled up the tank and waited for him to return. He, in turn, was aboard his boat waiting for me to show up. I lost patience first and motored to him and we did a test flight with his new engine (yes, it literally FLEW around the anchorage). I needed to go to BVI Yacht Sales in order to pick up the originals of the shipping papers and made it there by 4pm, then motor sailed to Trellis Bay and made it there just at sunset, snagging a free mooring ball and now I’m about to shower, shave and then head in to the Last Resort for dinner and hope that the kitchen is as good as it was last visit.
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