A view of St. Thomas harbour. Ed and I chartered out of here on our very first bareboat sailing trip, which for you non-sailors means we were the captain and crew on a chartered boat. The name of the boat was Footloose, a 31' Pearson from Avery's Boatyard. No steering wheel, only a tiller. And no refrigeration, just an icebox. No hot water either, but what did we care? It was all we could afford at the time and we had a wonderful trip. We returned a couple of years later for our honeymoon and got a more upscale boat from Sunsail Charters out of the BVI, a Beneteau 33' which also had tiller steering. Those were the days without GPS or electronic navigational systems. One night we had to hustle to our next anchorage because we were out after dusk, which was a big no-no with the charter companies. In order to navigate our way there, we used saltine crackers to measure the miles on the chart. We still laugh about that.