It was a glorious Saturday, Nov. 15th morning for Crimson Kathryn and her faithful crew!! We were up relatively early (a little before 7 am), had breakfast and started our pre-departure checklist. I always look after the breakfast dishes and securing down below (closing portlights, hatches, putting electronics away etc) and Mark does all the engine checks (which had already been done earlier this week). Instead, Mark went up to the office to return our passes and to let them know we were leaving. Our friend John helped us get off the dock and we were on our way by 8:30 am.
The weather was perfect – sunny, light wind from south east and fairly calm seas. The only negative of the start to our short passage today was all the power boats heading out of the marina for a Saturday jaunt! It was a continuous stream of them leaving before us and after us. It didn’t take long before we were far enough from the marina that the power boat wakes were not a problem.
We had a very easy motorsail to Culebra (about 25nm) and are now anchored in a bay called Puerto del Manglar. This must be a popular anchorage for Puerto Ricans because when we arrived there were about 15 power boats all anchored in the same spot. We chose to anchor across the bay from them – they will probably leave around dinner time so we’ll be out of their way!
This has been a great day – got off the dock; had a nice motor sail; and then had a lovely swim to cool off!! The water was wonderful! Tomorrow we want to be underway by 7am to make the roughly 35nm to Soper’s Hole (on Tortola), BVIs. Should be another great day! Cheers!!
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 