This morning we tossed our dock lines and then ran over to the marina's fuel dock. We wanted to fill our fuel tanks with duty free diesel. We took 289 liters and it only cost us $189 US. That is just $0.79 a liter or just a little over $3.00 a gallon. Whoo Hoo!

We then went out to the center of Great Bay and anchored. We wanted to clean the bottom of our dinghy before we headed out for St. Croix. We had to have the dinghy in the water while docked to prevent the dinghy from banging into the concrete dock. Thus, the bottom was covered with slime and some barnacles. Since I still have my incision that is partial open, I could not go into the water. The cleaning of the bottom of the dinghy fell to Mary Margaret. The swells were coming into the bay so the dinghy bounced quite a bit in the water. This made it a were challenge to clean its bottom. It took over an hour and by the time Mary Margaret had it sparkling, she was exhausted and a bit water logged. I felt so sorry for her but was greatly appreciative.

Since our passage to St Croix is only about 95 nm, we decided to sit on our anchor until 1500. We have made arraignments with Steve, the Green Cay Marina manager, to arrive around 1400 tomorrow. That will give him time to clear out a boat that will currently where we will be docking. Since we knew we would have no winds during this passage. By leaving at 1500 and motoring at just 4.3 knots, we should arrive right on time.

I took the first 3-hour shift and it was easy, peasy. The starboard engine is running on moderately low RPMs, the swells are coming from our port stern quarter and we are having a leisurely way of it.

Every now and again a puff of wind teases us, coming from the south. I did unfurl the head sail and milked a knot out of the 6-knot breeze which allowed me to back off of on the RPMs. However, after about 30 minutes, the breeze floated away and I had to furl the headsail. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.

We are looking forward to spending a short bit of time in St. Croix. Our blog friend, Rick, has invited us to spend some time with him and use his guest house. We are excited about finally meeting him and exploring St. Croix. We will not be spending too much time here since we need to head over to St Thomas so that can pick up our good friends, Portia and Steve, who will be spending a couple of weeks. We can hardly wait to see them. Once they leave, we then get to have our good friends, Valerie and Joe come and sail with us for a few days. They have sailed with us a few times, once in Panama and again in New Zealand.

As you can see, this coming month is power packed with great people and we are anticipating great times!

It is currently 1830, our position is 17 58.92'N: 063 17.85'W, our course is 263 degrees True, our speed is about 4.3 knots, and we have about 80 or so nm to go. The winds are nil and the swells are about a meter, coming from the ESE.