For provisioning - Rich is right. Take a cab to Bobby's in town and do your provisioning there. If you're out of the Moorings/Sunsail base, it's an easy shot in a cab. If you've got a dinghy, zip across the harbour to Village Cay and then you can walk up to Bobby's. If you're out of Nanny Cay, Bobby's will run a free shuttle from there - but it operates on island time.
For boat choices - who really gives a rat's ass about performance when you're cruising for a week in the BVI? Seriously, compared to what's on offer where most of us live at this time of year, any floating gin/rum palace will do. Hell, if I was chartering I'd get a freakin' cat. For flights, BVI is always a tough place to get to but you have a lot more options from the US than you do from Canada. Not many airlines fly from North America to EIS, but American and United do A typical routing will be via San Juan, but if you live near an AA or Untied hub, this can be a good option.. Other options are to get to STT and then grab a ferry over, which is pretty straightforward and opens up a lot more options. (The ferry dock is very near the St. Thomas airport). I often route through San Juan and then get a puddle jump flight from SJU to EIS. If you live near a Jet Blue hub (like Boston or NYC) this can be a good option as they have pretty good fares and direct flights to SJU. Then, from SJU I usually take Air Sunshine's Cessna to Tortola. Note also that the best fare options might have you going down on one carrier and coming back on another. Sorting out all the logistics ain't simple, but it's worth it once you get there. and BTW - if anyone's going down the last week of January, let me know. I'll be on Bojangles starting Jan 27 and would be happy to link up. Cheers, Colin On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Colin Kilgour <charliekilo...@gmail.com>wrote: > Good idea Fred. > > My 11 year old, now 15, did the DR plot like that we did the Caribbean > 1500. He'd also log other notes along the way such as where we caught a > fish, went swimming (yes, we did the mid-ocean lap around the boat) or > spotted dolphins. We still have the chart and it's a pretty cool memento > of our trip. > > Cheers, > > Colin > > > On Jan 8, 2014 5:30 PM, "Frederick G Street" <f...@postaudio.net> wrote: > >> One other thought on navigating in the BVIs: just buy a waterproof paper >> chart before you go, then at the end of each day, mark up your track and >> anchorage with date and time. It makes a really nice souvenir to look at >> twenty years from now; just fold it up and put it in with your photo album >> from the trip. People still print out photos, don’t they…? :^) >> >> I’ve still got such a chart from a charter trip in 1993. >> >> Fred Street -- Minneapolis >> S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( >> >> On Jan 8, 2014, at 4:24 PM, Frederick G Street <f...@postaudio.net> >> wrote: >> >> Chances are, the charter company will give you a placemat with a “chart” >> of the BVIs before your charter, if the boat doesn’t have a chart aboard >> (unlikely). Kinda like the map the rental car companies give you when you >> check out a rental car. You can pretty much see everything from everything >> else there, except for Jost Van Dyke being the other side of Tortola… >> Anegada being the other exception. But if you’re a first-time charterer, >> chances are they won’t let you go there anyway. >> >> Fred Street -- Minneapolis >> S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( >> >> On Jan 8, 2014, at 3:11 PM, Andrew Burton <a.burton.sai...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Joe's right. The BVI are dead easy to navigate via line of sight. A chart >> and the guide should be all you need. >> >> Andy >> C&C 40 >> Peregrine >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com >> CnC-List@cnc-list.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com >> CnC-List@cnc-list.com >> >>
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