Sailing East
01 May 2010 | St. Thomas to Christmas Cove
Steve
Vermilion Snapper "fish burgers for lunch"
Sailing East
The trip from Charlotte Amalie St Thomas to Christmas Cove was typical of going east . You don't need a GPS just go straight into the wind and you will arriver at your destination. Nevertheless we decided to sail. The distances in the Virgin Islands are so short that we would have lots of time. We enjoyed a great sail zig zagging up the coast of St Thomas We have our baby stay in place for our stay sail so we had to reel the genoa sail in with the self furling in order to tack. This is not normally a problem when ocean sailing because a tack is usually a once a week occurrence. Along the way Marg noticed that the fishing rod had more bend in it than normal so I reeled it in to remove sea weed caught on the hook, to my surprise there was a small Vermilion Snapper on the line "lunch".When Identifying the fish I found our that the small Vermilions normally school with Red snapper, it could have been "dinner".