We had heard good things about the small island of Bequia which lies just 8 miles south of St. Vincent. Given the short distance and the possibility that water at Bequia would not taste good, we decided to pursue filling our nearly empty water tank before leaving our Young Island Cut anchorage in mid afternoon.

Through the line handling young man who works for Mr. Sam of Sam Taxi tours, the owner of our mooring Mr. Charlie Tango (Sam's arch enemy) agreed to let us use his water hose to fill our tanks. Mr. Tango is the only one who can supply water in Young Island Cut and would not allow vessels using Sam's mooring balls to use his water line. We think Mr. Tango is a reasonable business man but his hatred for Sam obscures his quench for making money - couldn't he charge a bit more to those not on his balls? Now, we mean "mooring balls". Nonetheless, we quickly started Kikuyu's engine, set out our fenders and lines as we were to tie to a sailing vessel already at the dock.

As we approached the dock, which was just a few yards from our mooring ball, we noticed a lot of people and noise on the dock. Our helper was talking very lively and was not on the other sailing vessel as he was supposed to be to help us. Maria had to yell to get his attention. Finally, our helper rushed around and got our lines as he proceeded to tell us that a fast boat that approaching us was from Customs - they were seizing the sailing vessel to which we were tying! No one was supposed to be on that sailing vessel hence our helper's hesitation and plead to get on it. He quickly got on our vessel right after tying us and prior to Customs arriving. We never learned why the vessel was seized. Luckily, Customs did not ask us to move and so we were able to fill our water tanks. There is never a dull time when sailing!!

It took us 1.5 hours to sail the 8 miles between St. Vincent and Bequia. There was little wind and the currents off the Bequia channel slowed us down. We arrived to Admiralty Bay after entering it with winds as high as 30 knots. The bay was beautiful and expanse and so we anchored on the north side of it as it is fairly deep in the middle. Also, the ferry comes right through the middle of bay and room needs to be given to it.