Court Short

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! […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Such fun to see Pete and Robbie on their Warrior PR2 again and, yes, the weather has improved! We've had a great catch up over sundowners and lovely food but now it's time for us to move on while they have to wait for outboard engine parts! All being well, we'll catch them 'down island'. […]

The Virgin Islands really are a wonderful sailing ground with little bays and anchorages to suit all tastes. We have avoided the popular ones with restaurants and pirate ships (Willy T's, Soggy Dollar etc) and gone for the smaller, quieter ones. The only blot on the horizon - the weather. It's been raining! So much […]