Marina Cay - Home of Pussers Rum

Juniper
John and Sally
Wed 5 May 2010 13:59
18:27.584N 64:31.733W
Sailed from the beautiful, but windy, anchorage in
Virgin Gorda to one off a tiny island with a restaurant, shop, a few rooms for
rent and a fuel dock located on a reef. This is the headquarters of Pussers rum
and is a well organised facility - which makes a change.
We have had lots of e-mails about the perfect
conditions etc that are reflected in our photos so this time I have posted a
couple of the other side of cruising.
1st phot is both of us doing anchor watch at 0300
as the wind hit 30kts and we didn't have any more chain to let out (for the
technical we normally sit with 5:1 scope but couldn't do better than 4:1 due to
the depth of water - fine unil the wind increases).
2nd is "down the hole" - hours spent working on the
generator in a closet at 35 degrees.
Still overall a great adventure although the
shipping back is haywire - we are putting Juniper on a ship for the return to
Southampton and have heard the vessel is at least a week late. Several of us
with boats on board wondering what to do. We had 10 days contingency so may not
hugely change our return date to UK (21 May) but lets see.
John & Sally
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