4 Feb 07 - We arrived in Key West this morning, after a long night at sea with high winds and big, sloppy seas.  Robert’s folks were with us, and we all had taken turns throughout the night keeping watch.  We were quite glad to get inside the breakwater and arrive safely in port.

Our starboard engine decided to give us grief when we dropped the main and motored in to the marina.  We managed to get in on one engine and drift over to the dock with a favorable NE wind assisting us.  Robert determined we had a starter problem, so he will take it off and get it checked tomorrow morning.

Everyone took landside showers and we headed to Two Friends restaurant for lunch.  Robert had a Belgian waffle with bananas, caramelized pecans and praline syrup, while Dar had a shrimp salad croissant.  The shrimp salad ended up being whole pink Key West shrimp (delicious!) with a light dressing accompanied by chopped onions and celery.  Tasty!  Afterwards we walked to West Marine, where Dar used up the last of the gift cards on a pair of sandals.

Tonight was the Super Bowl, so we headed over to PT’s to eat and watch the game on their numerous TVs.  Had a few appetizers, then dinner later.  Does it sound like we’re pigging out?  Gotta get in all of these American delicacies before we head overseas!  We managed to score two t-shirts with Super Bowl logos, which we hope will come in handy in the islands to do a swap for some lobster!

5 Feb - Robert took the starter to a repair place, which informed him it was bad and needed to be replaced.  Dar looked online and located some in St. Petersburg, Florida, so Robert called his brother in law, Tom, and had him go buy us two and send them to us via UPS.  The wind continues strong out of the NE, so we are trapped at the dock with only one engine.  This will be an expensive repair when you add in the cost of the marina!

After a lunch on Duval Street, Robert’s folks bid us a fond farewell and headed home to Tampa.  We headed back to West Marine for more supplies and spent the remainder of the day working on and organizing the boat.  The Hills had given us some brunswick stew from one of their trips to Georgia, so we had that for dinner.  Afterwards we walked to the store and got a pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to split for dessert.

6 Feb - Checked the tracking on our UPS package and learned we will have to wait until tomorrow to receive our starters.  Egads — another night at the dock.  Tom was erroneously told there was one day UPS ground service from St. Petersburg to Key West; we now find out it had to be sent UPS Air to arrive today.  Another night at the marina . . . so much for the budget.  Another day working on the boat.  At least we are getting lots of little projects completed!  (Gotta always think of the positive!)

8 Feb - We are heading out!  Got up around 7 a.m., raised the anchor and the main, and sailed down the channel, bidding a farewell to Key West and the good ol’ U.S.A.  Don’t think we’ll be back for at least eighteen months.  Thought we’d take the southern route through the Old Bahama Channel. Had good breeze in the morning, with 4-6 foot, kind of sloppy seas. Robert caught a jackfin tuna, which our fish guidebook said was “good, but not to most likings.” So he tossed it back in anticipation of the “excellent” blackfin tuna. By mid-day the winds and seas had calmed down somewhat, and had been clocking all day to where we were having to tack back and forth to make progress. Had planned to go by Cay Sal.  We had seen a squall up ahead. Didn’t get into it, but it sucked all of the air away and now are drifting.  Around 4 pm we saw a big boat coming seemingly straight at us (e.g. steering like they wanted to get over by us). We looked through binoculars & couldn’t distinguish it, although RH thought it might be Coast Guard. Turned on the VHF & I caught the tail end of “Coast Guard off your starboard”. So I called them back; they asked us a few questions & said they were sending a boarding party. How nice — the natives were coming to greet us! Took them a long time to get their dinghy out, then six guys headed out way. Three came visiting & did a ’safety check’. Of course, they were rookies & had forgotten their paperwork! So the dinghy went back & two of the guys were reading out of their book to see what to ask & look for. It was a cute group of guys out of Mississippi. Had a nice visit & completed their task; we had NO violations. We didn’t have to allow them onboard as we were in international waters, but didn’t mind. I knew we had all our safety gear. I asked them if they’d escort us to Hispaniola. One guy said he’d willingly go AWOL & would even sign his own AWOL papers & go with us to Tortola! We said, “Come on ahead.”  But they headed off & we had dinner.  Had hoped to be to Cay Sal for dinner, then chill a couple hours and then head on.  Now will probably just keep going all night.

9 Feb - Made very little headway all day and night. Winds light. Forecast looks like it’s going east. Trying to decide what to do — keep heading SE through Old Bahama Channel near Cuba or head north towards/into Bahamas. Have one engine running just to make some headway. Was a quiet night and very beautiful with all the stars and the moon very bright (even though only half full).

10 Feb - Night time was very light. By 0830 yesterday we decided to start motor sailing. Also were discussing whether to continue on south or turn north past the Cay Sal area & change course to go up north towards Bimini & then down the Bahama chain. Discussed for awhile, & RH decided we’d head north. So we shortcutted it up the inside of the Anguilla Cays (not to be confused with Anguilla in the Caribbean) across the Bahama Bank. It was a gorgeous day, so we slowed down just offshore of Anguilla Cay and each hopped into the water to soap off. Were in about 40 feet of water clear all the way to the bottom; absolutely ideal. RH caught a huge barracuda; left him skipping behind the boat on the line. He finally made a lunge forward, dove down & got himself free of the line & lure. Good thing, ‘cuz we certainly weren’t going to cut him loose while still alive . . .The past two nights were the ones that remind you of why you go out on this huge ocean in the first place. Stars, stars everywhere; calm seas with a light breeze and very little chop; shooting stars. Then this big orange orb (aka the moon) comes up a little after midnight. Chases away a lot of the stars, but you have it shining on the water. The only thing we wished for was more wind. At times we were making under 2 knots, then at times would be as high as 7. But not much progress. No big deal, since it was so beautiful. During one of my shifts, I got a major scare when I caught a bright flash off my right side. Looked over and here was this ‘thing’ shining in the water coming at me. I thought I was about to be attacked by aliens! Here came a couple more. Of course, it ended up being a dolphin or shark or some big fish with the phosphorescence of the water making them glow in the dark. Really cool once the initial shock was past!We’re now heading on a course of about 50-60 degrees and may cut over near Riding Rock and attempt to cross the Bahama Bank towards Chub Cay, then head down towards Nassau. Will check the weather and try to decide whether to take I-65 (where we head due east about 400 miles into the ocean) or the “Thornless Path” down through the Bahama Island chain. Decisions, decisions, and we keep changing our minds. The wind never ends up being what they forecast, so it’s hard to know what to do. If we didn’t need to get to St. Maarten before month-end (for the Heineken Regatta), we wouldn’t care so much. As it is, we are very much enjoying our sailing under gorgeous (other than wind!) conditions. Reminds me of the time RH, Jon and I spent the ten days cruising the Abacos — what an awesome trip. Wish Jon were here enjoying this with us. Had another light air day, but beautiful. I drove a lot of the time so Robert could work on little projects.  Got in late this afternoon to Orange Cay, just on the edge of the Bahamas Banks. It’s a little ways south of Riding Rock. We dropped sail and put down anchor, and Robert went snorkeling. He was followed by a group of about 20 barracuda. I decided I’d stay on the boat! He went looking for lobster; didn’t find any, although he saw lots of conch. We decided to forego those for dinner. Pulled up anchor and sailed for about an hour, eating and watching the sunset. Set anchor, but it wasn’t catching. Then Robert noticed a couple small fishing boats nearby; seems kind of strange.Anyway, we pulled up anchor and are motoring across the Bahama Bank right now headed towards Russell Light. We’ll stop in awhile tonight and drop anchor, get a good night’s sleep (hopefully) and then head on across the bank in the morning when we can see it better.  It seems we may do the I-65 route (although possibly not that far east), where we head due east out of the Bahamas, go ’til we’re due north of where we want to end up, and then head south. This avoids sailing in the predominantly east trade winds of the Caribbean.  Every day the weather forecast (as far as wind) is completely different than what we experience. Same as when we came down the coast of the U.S. The marine forecasters seem even worse than the normal weathermen on TV!  Ha!

11 Feb - We had a great night of sleep anchored on the Bahama Bank not that far from Orange Cay. Went to bed at 8 pm and back up at 7 am. Gotta love it!  Woke to a beautiful pink sunrise over the turquoise water, then the sun came up and was a brilliant orange/red.  The only other boat we saw today was a fishing boat way behind us that we think was checking his lobster traps. Otherwise we’re all alone in the world. It’s an overcast, cooler day today. Have on cords and a fleece top.

We’re sitting here on the Bahama Banks spending the night just off the Northwest Channel marker. We’ll be there within two hours tomorrow, then off the bank within a little after that. Will check the weather and see if we should/could head out into the ocean and try to go east and then south, or cruise down the Bahama chain. Robert’s leaning towards the ocean route . . .We had a quiet day of motorsailing, followed by motoring when the wind clocked around and was on our nose. Saw one other boat today, late this afternoon, which also is headed the same way as we are. I saw it’s a sailboat (it’s a few miles away from us), and they stopped and dropped anchor awhile before we did.  Had a nice dinner with a yummy rum drink (100% fruit juice mixed with Bacardi Raspberry). What else would you expect?!

12 Feb - We are across the Bahamas Bank and back in the ‘deep seas’. Had to motor ’til about 10:30 am to get across the banks and past the NW Channel marker. Then we were able to fall off and get our sails up. We’re doing about 8 knots with seas 3-5 feet. Heading in the direction of Nassau, although plan to tack and head up NE and out the NE Providence Channel north of Eleuthera into the ocean. Plan is to then head over to longitude 64, which is pretty much due north of Tortola. Will take us all day and into the evening to get through the channel.Saw rain around us all morning, but it never rained on our parade! Was cloudy all day yesterday and is mostly overcast today. We’re hoping for some sunshine for our solar panels to recharge us. Had to run the generator for awhile last night to keep things charged up.

Tonight we are at anchor just west of Nassau. Had a high seas day, with strong winds out of the east. But we were able to sail SE and NE and work our way over here. Came down here to get one final good night’s sleep before heading out to sea. Will get up before dawn tomorrow and head north. The winds supposedly are supposed to go SW tonight and be 20-25 knots out of there for the next four days. That will be perfect for us if it transpires; so everyone please think positive thoughts and send us on our way!  Had a few showers today, but nothing too major. Temperature is comfortable, and actually perfect in the evening. Shadow loves to lay out on the cushions in the cockpit at night. It’s the only time he likes going outside — after it’s dark. We’re both tired from having to drive all day due to lack of the autopilot, plus the big seas we dealt with all day. Will be an early bedtime tonight! We’re both going to have a shower, as we probably won’t get one for a few days on the ocean.

13 Feb -  It rained all of last night. Got up in the middle of the night and headed into the bathroom. I had left the hatch open about an inch for some fresh air; the floor had about a 1/4″ of water all over it. So closed that and went back to bed. Got up this morning and headed NE. Wind was favorable for us. We were able to turn east about 1:30 pm and head out into the ocean. Robert told me to hold the course for about the next 700 miles! I said farewell to land and out we went. We’re out in the ocean with some very big waves, but mostly rolling. Only an occasional ’slam’ from one.  If we can get the wind to clock more to the SW, we want to head a little ESE. We’re having to sail slightly higher than 90 right now — generally 60 to 75.

14 Feb - Happy Valentine’s Day!  Just a quick note right now. High seas and don’t feel much like sitting inside typing on the computer! We are fine, but had a heck of a night. Big squalls. The first and last were the worst. First one was full of lightning, last one a mother of a squall with winds over 40 kts. and buckets of rain pouring down. On that one we had to turn and face the monster and drop our main. Had already taken the jib in earlier. Had to fire up the engine and motor. Did that for a couple hours afterwards just to give it a chance to get a long ways ahead of us. Today is a gorgeous day with beautiful sunshine, good wind in the right direction, but high seas.  Got a personal report from a NOAA guy who my blessed mother contacted; he said we have a good window for the next four days. So hopefully things will go our way.

15 Feb - We had a lovely last 24 hours. Yesterday was a ’sail naked’ kind of day, so I got in a couple hours early so as not to get burned! We had steady winds and clear skies. Winds are lighter this morning and the seas have calmed some. We’re down to a little over 500 miles to get to Jost Van Dyke, if we could sail it directly!  We both got a little more sleep last night, so are feeling better today. We had a pod of four whales off our port side for awhile yesterday. Never got a good chance to see them — only could see when they would ‘blow’.  Robert had a large glowing creature by the boat last night, he said. He thinks it must have been a huge jellyfish. Maybe an octopus?! We’re now in depths of about 18,000 feet. Hadn’t seen another soul since the middle of the night two nights ago, but early this morning Robert saw a freighter heading west way off our bow.  Will get our wind report and see how things are looking. If this would hold up, we’d be in the BVI by Saturday evening. But the only thing for sure is that things always change . . .

16 Feb - Had a beautiful day and evening last night. Around 3:30 am the seas kicked in and got very sloppy, so is slowing our progress. Otherwise today is a beautiful, sunny day. SSDD!!  Our NOAA guru told us yesterday that he suggested we just head straight to where we’re going — as straight as a catamaran can sail, that is! He said we’re due for thunderstorms and squalls later today through tonight, so we don’t like the sounds of that. Will hope for the best.  Had another whale sighting today — this time better to see and closer. Around 7 am Robert spotted a large gray whale about 100 feet from us. We were heading SE and he/she/it was heading SW. It was staying right at the surface so we got a good view. That’s been our excitement for the day so far!

17 Feb - Made it through another night. Yesterday and last night were again nice, although the wind isn’t where we need it. It also was very ‘messed up’, as far as the wave action, which made for a very long night of no sleep. It just was too loud! Our ‘big event’ last night is that we had a block on the boom, holding the main, blow up. So we had to drop the main, motor for awhile, then replace the block. Fortunately we had a spare one.Yesterday afternoon we had a pod of at least seven whales pass by us. That’s really the only sea life we’ve seen on the trip. Last night a large ship passed fairly near; first human life we’d seen in a couple days!I just got up; there’s a rainbow very vivid behind us. Robert said a water spout came over within about 200 feet of us awhile ago and just ‘hovered’ over the water. Guess it was just checking us out! Then it headed back up and disappeared. I think we have so many guardian angels hanging with us that the spout was overwhelmed; ha!  Will get the weather report to see if the wind is supposed to change at all today. If not, we’ll have lots of tacking to do.  Current position is N 22 07.20, W 064 16.53; tracking 116; distance to go 222 miles.

18 Feb - Another day in paradise. Had a lovely day and night yesterday, other than one rainstorm about 3 am. This time Robert was the lucky driver at the time. Our autopilot worked for about two hours yesterday morning, then went kaput again. I must say I enjoyed those two hours, though!  Wind was wrong for us all day yesterday, so while we had good speed, averaging about 8 knots, we were making very little progress towards Jost Van Dyke. At one point I looked at the GPS and our VMG (velocity made good for you non-sailors) was 0.0! This meant we were gaining NO ground on getting to land. So we tacked over, but then that was only taking us even farther from our destination. About 3:30 pm I told Robert I thought we should start an engine and motorsail. He said, “Which direction?” I replied, “Straight towards JVD!” So that’s what we did. We aimed the boat at 210 on the compass and finally started making headway. Ran it the rest of the day and all night.  About 6:30 am I took a shower, then headed to bed. A little while later, I hear “Dar. Dar. Fish on. Two fish on!” So up I came. We dropped the jib and headed down to slow our progress. Robert said he didn’t know which line to go for. I told him whichever one he wanted. So he started reeling in the starboard line. I said, “It’s a dolphin (mahi).” He said, “No, I think it’s a tuna.” Then, “You’re right. It’s a dolphin.” So he got his fish on board and then I proceeded to reel mine in. Mine was kind of tired from being pulled behind the boat for awhile, so he was surfing half of the way to the boat! My fish was bigger — ha! Robert proceed to get his knife and fillet the fish on the transom. He put them in baggies and went into the salon to put them in the fridge. Came back outside and said, “Man, this is a perfect day. A naked girl driving and fresh fish in the fridge!” I just laughed!The wind finally clocked around and is out of the SE. That’s good, since we need to go SW. We are currently about 69 miles from Jost Van Dyke. I was doing about 8.5 knots all morning, but Robert’s down to about 7 knots now. Wind is coming and going. Water temperature is up over 75 degrees.  Oh, yeah. We had an absolutely gorgeous sunrise — the best one of the trip. Then shortly thereafter there was a double rainbow behind the boat. Maybe we died and this is heaven . . .

19 Feb - Yea, we made it! Had a great day yesterday, catching another mahi in the late afternoon. Good wind, although late in the afternoon it started dying and shifted south on us. Robert cut some of the mahi into finger size, and I dipped them in an egg/milk mixture and then coated them with Italian breadcrumbs and flash fried them. Made some teriyaki rice, and dinner was served. We took down the jib and just floated around so we could eat dinner together and watch the sunset.  After dinner we started an engine and went with the main only. It was the only way we were going to get to Jost Van Dyke! I took over the helm around 8 pm, and you could already smell the islands. Plus we could see lights in the distance. We got into Great Harbour, JVD, about 3:30 a.m. and it took us until almost 4:30 a.m. to get the boat anchored (put out two), flags up, etc. The harbor was full of boats, and it’s not all that big, so just trying to find a spot was time consuming. We ended up back with the ‘big boys’, and they are BIG! There’s a motor yacht right behind us named Sovereign; it’s probably 80′ long. There’s one other huge catamaran, Star Cruiser, which is really good looking. Can’t tell where they’re from; haven’t gotten out the binoculars; looks like maybe Germany.  It is WARM! Was good sleeping weather, though, with a nice light breeze. Being able to see in the daylight, there were about 45 boats anchored here last night, and the harbor isn’t all that big. Most of them are charters from Sunsail (predominantly) and Moorings. Many got up early and headed to their next anchorage, as they only have a week to see this gorgeous area in which you could spend several months and not see it all. I just told Robert what is so neat about sitting here watching them all leave — they only have a week and I have about ten before heading for Europe. A VERY good feeling! It’s just starting to sink in that I don’t have to hurry to ’somewhere’ to pick up my next work package (I love ‘ya, Jason, but retirement is feeling pretty good!)Today will be a relax and clean-up day. We have clothes all over from our past 2-1/2 weeks of being on the boat. It was cool at night, so you had one set of clothes for day and another for night. Then when we got soaked from our first night out of the Bahamas, we have all of that as well. I may do a couple loads of clothes today and get the cold weather stuff put away. I don’t think we’ll need it until perhaps our trans-Atlantic crossing.  Jost Van Dyke has high hills, up to 1,000 feet. There are a few shacks and a couple larger homes in this harbor. Only about 250 people live on the entire island. Not terribly pretty — lots of scrub. The beach looks cute with a white sand beach and palm trees. We’ll head there in awhile, as the customs house is there.Thanks to all who sent good thoughts and made sacrifices to the wind goddess for us for a safe passage. If you don’t hear from me for a couple days, it means we’re having too much fun!!

20 Feb - We survived our first day in paradise. We haven’t been down in this area for at least eight years; how times have changed! And usually when they do that it’s not for the better . . . True in this case. I can’t believe how crowded it is everywhere. Guess I also was never here during the peak season, so that’s got something to do with it. The charter boats, primarily SunSail and Moorings, make up the bulk of the people — I’d say at least 75%. That makes for crazy drivers; heck, I thought I got away from that when I left the freeways behind! No such luck. Then you have all of the mega power yachts — each one a little bigger than the last. We watched one come in yesterday morning (we got in around 4 a.m. to the harbor) and spend about thirty minutes trying to figure out where and how to anchor. By the time they came in, the majority of boats had left. So it wasn’t that there wasn’t tons of space available. But the captain (a paid crew, mind you!) was a total dufus. He was using bow thrusters when there was absolutely nothing to be ‘fending off’ of. They finally gave up and left the area. Later yesterday we found them again, over at Sandy Cay where we’d gone to snorkel. They were anchored; all seemed safe. Then a couple hours later they decided to leave. Getting your anchor up should be a fairly easy task, right? Especially considering, as already mentioned, that these are paid crew (at least three that I saw), with the owners sitting back in their aft lounge area. Well, the crazies came close to hitting us. I sat in our cockpit watching the shenanigans, knowing full well that there was nothing I could do to avoid a collision should it come down to that. My only thought was that they would have plenty of money with which to repair my boat! Anyway, they decided finally to full throttle so they could get away from us, dragging their anchor forward but they managed to escape, as did we, unscathed. I told Robert that we need to be sure to stay at the opposite end of any place where we see that boat again!Oh, yeah; then there’s the mega yacht next to us yesterday morning, with the people sitting in the cockpit watching the Fox Network on their 52″ flat panel TV. And a lady is on the upper deck doing her treadmill. We found that extremely amusing! You can see that we are the ‘poor folks’ out here in the land of the filthy rich!  We headed to Little Harbour around 3 p.m. We had passed it on the way to Sandy Cay. We could see a storm coming and figured we’d pay for a mooring there. Well, we were too late. The harbor was full when we got there, with no moorings remaining. So we went to the west end and dropped anchor in about 12 feet of water. Robert spent an hour diving down (with his snorkel) to try and ‘fix’ the anchors (we put out two) and was grabbing rocks from around them and piling them up. We thought all was O.K. Had a nice dinner, split a bottle of my Veuve Clicquot Rose champagne that I got as a ‘parting gift’ from Jason. Went to bed around 7:30 pm; I read for awhile. Robert got up about three times to check and see that we were OK. Then out of a sound sleep there’s a ‘thunk’, and then another thunk. I said, “What was that?” and we both sprang up and raced upstairs. We were bumping on the shoreline. Quickly fired up the engine and I had to keep us offshore while RH thought about what to do and tried to get the anchors up. We finally got the anchors up, turned on the VHF to get the marine weather (a benefit of being right next to the USVI, as in US waters they broadcast, nonstop, the marine weather), decided the wind was going to stay strong for the next couple days, then tried to figure out where to go. We looked at our chartplotter and decided to head east, then decided to go back west to Great Harbour where we’d spent our first night. Got over there and it was crowded as usual. Found what we thought would work and dropped anchor, but after about five minutes we started dragging. So pulled it up, circled around and gave another spot a shot. Sat there for about 15 minutes after we dropped anchor this time and it was holding. So I headed back to bed, with RH following about ten minutes later. It was now after 3 a.m. Didn’t sleep that well the rest of the night, but the anchor held. Never a dull moment!Sitting here now, after having pancakes for breakfast, playing catch up on stuff. Robert went back to bed. We’ll probably head to Road Harbour, Tortola later today. That’s where our friend, Bob Phillips, runs the Doyle Sail Loft. He’s a little older than Robert, but spent many years in Tampa. Robert helped him bring his boat here when he moved down here about 15 years ago. We’ve come down and visited them a couple times. Bob’s loft is building us two new spinnakers, so he needs to measure for them.  Our starboard engine decided to quit working yesterday, and Robert can’t figure out what is wrong with it, so we may have to get someone to look at it. That, of course, is in addition to our autopilot and phone which don’t work. Money, money, money. Our friend Scott, who has a Switch 51 in California, sent me the following the other day:In case you wondered where the name BOAT came from, there are two popular tales…………. First, B.O.A.T. (Break Out Another Thousand)………..This is actually the name of my next door neighbor’s vessel. The graphics of the lettering are $1000.00 bills.

Second, the obvious, (Bend Over And Take-it)…………:)

These are proving to be very profound statements!  Today is overcast with high winds. It was raining on Tortola earlier (we can see it SE of us), but we didn’t get it. Will be a nice sail over and around the end of Tortola. Miles and Jahn Tihansky are flying down here on Friday to take paid customers out for a week on a sailboat. So we will hope to get to spend a little time with them before they have to ‘work’! Jahn saw our boat in Annapolis for a minute one evening, but Miles has yet to see it.

21 Feb - Headed out around 7 a.m. for Tortola.  In and out of rain storms most of the way.  Wind was dead on our nose, so motored the entire way.  RH sat comfortably in the cockpit enclosure while I roughed it in the rain at the helm!  The things we do for love; ha!  Came into Road Harbour and picked up a mooring; RH took off in the dinghy to find our friend, Bob, at the Doyle loft.  They came back a few minutes later and Bob got a quick look at the boat.  He had a friend with a mooring over near where Bob & Linda live (on their boat at a dock), so we motored the boat over and put it on the mooring.  Then headed to the yacht club, where Bob bought us lunch.  Was nice having a meal which I for once didn’t have to cook!  Afterwards we ran over to a diesel engine shop and a chandlery to discuss a couple of our ‘issues’.  Will have to go back tomorrow and talk to the diesel guy, as he was in Puerto Rico.  Will hopefully get him over here tomorrow to look at the engine and try to fix it before we leave for St. Maarten next week.  Turned into a beautiful day once we arrived.  There were three cruise ships in the harbor, so town was bustling.  Spent the rest of the day on Bob & Linda’s boat doing laundry and accessing our aol email accounts.  Our hosts got home from work and we had happy hour up top on their boat, then headed to dinner at a Mexican restaurant at West End.  I had a burrito and RH had an enchilada; quite good and very reasonable for ‘island’ prices!