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James and Claire Short, Adventures at Sea!
30 April, 2017
Dawn Chorus

With views to immaculate lawns and shrubs, a lovely sandy beach to walk along and collect shells, turquoise blue waters with turtles and rays, Brewers Bay has much to recommend it. It does, however, have the St Thomas' airport runway as our protective sea wall, though actually the airplane noise isn't enough to worry us! […]

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28 April, 2017
Carnival J'ouvert

St Thomas' carnival festivities started in earnest yesterday at ..... 4am!! J'ouvert is the traditional start to carnival and this is the first time we have been able to join the celebrating masses on the streets! We forgot our earplugs so by the end of the morning our ears were ringing from the loud music […]

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24 April, 2017
Blue and Black - what's the difference?

Answer - 2miles and 128 steps! On a whim, we decided to go and see Bluebeards Castle so, in the heat of the day (mad dogs and Englishmen!) we caught a bus to town, hopped off at the foot of the hill and climbed up to the castle. 20 minutes later we discovered our error […]

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17 April, 2017
Fortuna styled Easter

On Friday we heard singing from a Baptism service on the waters edge at Brewers Bay, a quick swim ashore, a question about church on Easter Sunday and everything was sorted! Garston collected us at 10.30am and drove us west into the depths of the countryside to the hamlet of Fortuna. What a warm welcome […]

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10 April, 2017
Warrior Rally

Although short, it has been very sweet to have 3 Trident Warrior 40s travelling together. PR2 know St Johns very well so after a couple of nights in Round Bay we motored across to Coral Cove line abreast (great photo opportunity) and anchored in the bay. Friday night we spent at Skinny Legs with great […]

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6 April, 2017
A Trident of Warriors!

Unique. Three Warrior 40s in Hansen's Bay, St John, USVI. Sail numbers 94, 98 and 120! Such a great sail from Brewers Bay (for Hecla and OR) and from Charlotte Amalie for PR2. We watched through binos as Hecla and PR2 crossed wakes, tacking their way over to STJ. However with Ocean Rainbow on her […]

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3 April, 2017
Warrior Fest

We met up with PR2 but we had no idea that another great sailing friend and fellow Warrior owner was anywhere near us ... in fact we thought he was on his way through the Panama Canal! But Jon, on Hecla of Uist, posted a blog and we found he was only 3nm from us. […]

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2 April, 2017
Culebra Revisited

We've sailed back to Culebra to have a look at the island and enjoy the amazing sandy beaches. We spent one night in Culebrita where James was a hero and helped disentangled and free a fellow cruiser who'd got a mooring ball wrapped around his prop! Had lovely 'thank you' sundowners on board their catamaran […]

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