We are anchored at Charlestown, Nevis which is part of a two islad nation of St. Kitts and Nevis. We have stayed a bit longer than anticipated since I (really dumb) had my fingers between the mooring line and the cap rail while attempting to untangle a mess of lines which made up our mooring bridle that had managed to twist and tie around the mooring ball and the chain underneath it. All was well until a guest of wind placed all the strain on the line I was holding, which had the effect of jamming a couple of fingers between line and solid boat. If you have read Charlene's description of the event on Facebook it really scared her as I bellowed a couple of choice words quite loudly and it looked much worse than it turned out to be. And it could have been much worse but thankfully all that I did was rip skin etc. down most of the bottom side of one finger. The ER at the local hospital had a really good orthopedic surgeon who cleaned, stitched and dressed my finger. Since th ere was a relatively small cut on the next finger, that also got cleaned and the two are nicely bound together in a well padded bandage. (it is fun to type and do many other things) Of course the local hospitals do not take Medicare so I had to pay for all this attention and the skills of the orthopedic surgeon. Before you read the next sentence take a minuite to think about the cost of the last ER visit you or someone you know had. For the ER visit, the surgeons time, the Tetnus booster and the perecriptions (pain med and antibiotic)the total was just about $1,000. Sorry that is not US dollars but Eastern Carribean dollars that are at a fixed exchange rate of $2.65 EC =$1.00 US, so the real cost was about $325.00. Enough of that-except Charlene will have to remove the stitches for me after 10 days. So in about an hour we will be departing Nevis, bound for St Thomas where we have a few maintenance items to take care of before our friends arrive for a much anticipated visit. We are looking forward to a week of great times in the BVI with some of mthe best people I know. One more thing; my laptop which is the tool for writing these posts has been acting like it wants to die the last few days so I am not sure I will be able to post while we are underway. If not,I am experminting with a tracking system utilizing the satellite phone, so you may go to www.snap.ocens.com and on the left side if the page there is a block for inputing information In the top block simply put Cailin Lomhara then below that there is a start date to select, today and a finish date (I would suggest Jan 19) then click on the bottom box. On the right side you can zoom out which gives a pretty good reference to where we are relative to the rest of the world. I beleive when you click on one of the track positions it provides location, course and speed. more later