Since the nature of blogs is to post/show the most recent entry first, let me explain an easy way to follow along with our trip blog/story/report, ect.
On the right side of this page you will see a series of "triangles and dates". It's best if you expand the tree to show all the dates as shown below:
On the right side of this page you will see a series of "triangles and dates". It's best if you expand the tree to show all the dates as shown below:
Then from there click on the OLDEST date. May 18th to May 22nd for the Passport Debacle story or May 24th to June 3rd for the "Trip Report/Blog"
Once you have read a post/blog, the easiest way to the next blog in succession is to click the link at the bottom of the post in the lower left side. Like here:
Also, some of the blog was written while on 'ilon. Since returning, I added some text and photos to several of those posts. Text in blue italic was written after. Sometimes I had to blog days after and have since changed the date to keep continuity of the report.
After trip items of note.
- Loved Anegada once again. Might even do 3 days next time...still felt rushed even with 2 days.
- Have done 2 days in North Sound in 2000, 2005 and this time. Just don't see a need. Maybe if we rented a jeep to see VG, but other then that BEYC is turning into a "been there, done that" location. Saba Rock still has a place in my heart, but not sure I would overnight there or Leverick next time. Who knows.
- A boat with A/C is looking better and better every time. With NO wind at night it was really tough to sleep in the heat.
- I forgot how much I enjoy sailing until that last day with 25+ knot winds...whoo hoo!
- Bring 11 bathings suits next time.
- Taking a hardside cooler and 2 softsided was easy. Next time I'll go for the 5 day Coleman eXtreme cooler.
- Keeping ice as ice is a 24hr job.
- Because of #7, next time I'll do more can beer and less mix drinks. Mix drinks were not enjoyable when the ice melts within 3 minutes. We over provisioned on the "mixed drinks"
- Speaking of ice, we bought 43 bags of ice during our 10 days. At an average cost $4/bag thats $172 just in ice.
- We used roughly 22 gallons of diesel even with little to no wind in the first 5 days. I wrote the engine hours down at the start of our trip and at the time of writing this I can't find where I wrote down the final engine hours.
- Stomach bugs suck.
- Went ~150 miles with Kokomo.
~Bryan
