BVI!

Back in college I fell in with a bad crowd. There were four of us, fast friends, roommates and fraternity brothers, bonded in so many ways. One of us had a Cape Dory 25 and we spent many a spring or fall afternoon, when we should have been in class or at the least studying, sailing. Fast Forward a few years and we reestablished the pattern. Beginning in 1992 we were ducking out of work for long weekends on a string of cruising sailboat. As time advances and as spouses, family obligations and work permitted, the trips became longer. In 2007 we made our first trip to the BVI for a week long charter. We repeated in 2010 and 2013. A year after the last trip I traded my cruising sailboat for a commodious trawler. With that the "boys" got their Chesapeake weekends power boating. Longer trips were accomplished via ICW transits to Florida. Still we longed for some more BVI time. And so it was in 2021 we began planning for a 2022 sailboat charter out of Tortola. Covid moved the plans to 2023. We got eight days in boating paradise for our efforts. The BVI, mostly recovered from 2017 hurricane damage and Covid restrictions, was so worth the effort. We made stops at Norman Island (jumped off the Willie T), Cooper Island, Jost Van Dyke, Leverick Bay, Marina Key, Trellis Bay and the Bitter End Yacht Club with a side trip to Saba Rock.