Anchored off the Bitter End Yacht Club - Virgin Gorda 18:29.73N, 64:21.48W
AJAYA'S CRUISE
Phil & Nikki Hoskins
Mon 27 Apr 2009 23:27
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Well the wind didn't die and the sea didn't abate
overnight so we had a gruelling 5 hour bone rattling, rig shaking bash up to
Virgin Gorda. To add to the discomfort we had a flooding tide against the sea
state which piled the water up into short steep waves.. WE thought about
calling it a day but perserveered. I stuoidly decided to head right through the
middle of the Sir Francis Drake Passage instead of sticking close by the outer
islands so we took more of a hammering than perhaps we would have suffered
taking a more circular route. Once again the wind instrument lost its readout -
a problem we've had for some months and which looks to be caused
somewhere at the masthead transducer.
At the top end of Virgin Gorda through a large
coral reef which is well buoyed we finally anchored off the point near the yacht
club. The wind has abated slightly but still gusting. Very pleasant location
although most of the anchorages here are now full of white mooring buoys at $25
per night - anchoring space is limited unless you have a mile of chain - which
we don't!
 The waterfront at the Bitter End Yacht Club
complex- Virgin Gorda
 No, Nikki didn't tie Phil to the post - just looks
that way! - Virgin Gorda
 Same post
 Waterfront at the Bitter End complex - Virgin
Gorda
 Pelican taking off after catching fish - no
it didn't drop its hankerchief on take off!
 At the Biras Creek resort across fthe bay rom
Bitter End resort - Virgin Gorda
 View over the Bitter End Yacht Club anchorage -
Virgin Gorda
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