Welcome to Tortola!

We are in, all safe and sound and cleared through customs.

Last night was uneventful, where we were just killing time and waiting for the dawn.  As predicted we woke up around 5:30, pointed the boat back to the BVI’s and we were pulling in before 10:00 in the morning.

What a stunning place!

Kathy and I were here about ten years ago on a Windjammer Barefoot cruise – it was fun but we never really got the geography of the place, or much of a sense of it.  Now of course we have to pore over charts and cruising guides…it already seems that we won’t be here long enough!

Tonight we are all looking forward to our first night of uninterrupted sleep on a stable, non moving (well not too much moving…) platform in over a week.

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I want to send thanks out to my mother, who bailed me out when Google’s remote posting just didn’t work.

Remember the test blog post, where I did a Real test to show that I could in fact send in a blog post via remote e-mail with the SSB radio?  It DID work then…didn’t it, I wasn’t imagining.  It’s the only time I’ve ever seen it work.

So here I was, boumching and bumping across the Atlantic dutifully writing a blog post about our experiences every day and sending them off via SSB, where Blogger happily was dumping them off into the great etheric void without so much as a by-your-leave.

When I asked my mom to check the blog, it turns out there were no posts.  So I had to teach her, remotely by intermittent e-mail, how to get into my blog and take the posts I re-mailed to her and add them to the blog.  So thanks, that was a lot of work especially when you are nervous watching your son, daughter in law and two of your grandkids head way off shore!