Late in the evening on Sunday, November 10 we noticed a few low lights in the distance in front of us. Anegada!! Around midnight we entered the Gorda Sound and grabbed a mooring at the Bitter End Yacht Club. I checked my watch and looked at the chartplotter's cumulative track of miles: 180 hours, 1350 nmi. That's some sweet whole number math--180 nmi/day!
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| Pratique on her mooring at the Bitter End Yacht Club |
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| Looking down at Gorda Sound. |
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| Venus--The Jobs megayacht--anchored nearby |
The next few days were well-deserved decompression days, with some chores peppered into the mix. Clearing customs was made easy at the new facility in Gun Creek, and between meals and happy hours we got the boat all clean and tidy. It was great to share experiences with the other crews, not just from Wynot but also the other boats that arrived around the same time: Freestyle, Distant Star, Il Sogno and Saucy Fox.
The final stop for Pratique was the east end of Tortola, at Penns Landing Marina.
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| approaching Fat Hogs Bay, Tortola |
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| Pratique on her new mooring--strange camera effect! |
A few last pics from my tour of the whole island by rental car:
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| Looking down on Road Town, Tortola |
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| West end: Sopers Hole |
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| Little Apple Bay |
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| Long Bay: Sleepy beach bar and bartender. And he's a Giants fan! |
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| Full Moon Party tonite at the Bomba Shack . . . |
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| . . . but we decide to do the Trellis Bay Full Moon Party |
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| Overlooking Cane Garden Bay |
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Looking down at East End Bay and Penns Landing Marina,
with Beef Island in background and Virgin Gorda in the far left background |
See you next month!
