April in Antigua and Barbuda: Awesome!
We watched the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta:
We visited the Donkey Sanctuary!
Robert and Sally visited for a week! Lots of fun with them:
Barbuda was spectacular--the highlight of which was the Frigate Bird colony:
In May, Pratique got hauled in Jolly Harbour for a fresh coat of bottom paint. When I got back to Jolly, Hank joined me for the Spring, 2015 return trip to RI. We took the boat to Nanny Cay to meet our new crew Mike Vohs and Greg Neely. Fantastic trip home with the other Salty Dawg Rally boats.
We spent the summer in our new apartment in Providence, enjoying the city for the first time. Fast forward to October and it was time to move south again to Hampton VA for the fall SDR rally. We spent a leisurely 3 weeks to go from Barrington to Hampton via the Long island sound and New York City, then up the Delaware and through the C&D canal for a really nice week in the Chesapeake.
November 1 we departed once again from Hampton to Virgin Gorda, BVI. This time more than ever having a great crew was crucial because I had some kind of pneumonia/bronchitis that would not quit. Thanks to Hank, Tim Metcalf and Sam Dickson for making the trip happen!
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So that brings us back to the Virgin Islands to begin 2015-2016 season in the Caribbean! I flew home
for the Thanksgiving week, then Susan and I returned to Nanny Cay to throttle up and out. Trouble was, the throttle mechanism failed! So we quickly learned to manually push the cable to get into forward gear. No worries, as a new throttle was to arrive soon and we were able to enjoy December in the Virgin Islands--which will have to wait for the next post!
Happy New Year!
