Finally a blog update, we have busy and a bit lazy. We arrived back early from Barbuda and was able to meet up with Carol Laidlaw who was in St. Maarten,  we spent a few days hanging out with her in one of her condos she was trying on for size.  She was nice enough to lone us her car while she flew off to see Cherry Stobie in Peurto Rico for a few days.

In the meantime we met on Monday with Tradewinds to be asked to do a one week charter in Belize leaving Thursday.  We got the boat organized for our departure had our friend Mark from Sea Life keep an eye on it while we left it anchored close by.

Carol returned to St. Maarten with Cherry only for us to return the car, have a cocktail and say goodbye for the next ten days.

Our third time in Belize chartering was smooth and uneventful and nice to see the people we have worked with there before.

We planned on meeting Cherry in Trellis Bay BVI on February 6th for her families celebration commemorating them developing Beef Island  back in the 1940's.  Carol decided to join us on the overnight sail to BVI.  After we provisioned and had Neil scrape the bottom of the boat, checked our zincs off we went.  We had only a few days to do all this and managed to get to the Bay in time to have sundowner anchored beside Doug Patterson.

The weekend had events, speeches and parties, lots of Polish people but no perogies....strange!
There was even an impromptu wedding for Cherry's niece.

Carol flew home and we moved our boat to St. Thomas to meet Peter, Jack's brother and his girlfriend Patti who we toured the BVI with for 10 days.  We tried to hit all the hots spots and only  missed one or two, the weather was windy but the sun was hot and the company great.

Our next adventure starts this Thursday March 5th , we are leaving the boat in St. Thomas and flying to St. Maarten for a one week charter, our first time for Tradewinds but we have been around the island many times.  Then we fly to Panama to do a four week charter with one week off in between two charters so we can tour around on our own.  Looking forward to seeing Bocas del Toro, that is the area we will be sailing with our guests.

Next Blog will be on our return the end of April.