Just 12 days to the start of our 2016 adventure.  We are trying to figure out how to blog.  This will be a work in progress so stay tuned.  We hope to keep a blow by blow of our trip.  Posting frequency will depend on wifi access and speed which tends to be spotty at best in the islands.

We will each have a bag to include a few clothes (mostly bathing suits), dive gear, books, electronics, spare boat gear, our own EPIRB for off shore and our own inflatable life vests etc., etc..

With the warm weather we have been experiencing this year, 67 today on Christmas, some “friends” say why bother head south.  Ha, Ha we know better.  I just hope the snow holds off until 1/7.

 

Judy and Ted, The Other Herlihys, are about to start another Virgin Island sailing adventure, while Andy, Liz, Mira and Peter (Herlihy Sailing at herlihy.me) work their way south to Grenada.  We will not meet up with them this trip as they are long gone from the Virgin Islands.  Currently they are spending Christmas sailing around Antigua.

This trip will be our 3rd extended stay in the VIs since Ted retired.  We started with 4 wks, then 5 wks and this year 6 wks.  Note the trend.  What a place to hang for the nasty part of the winter.  As you may glean from the crew list and boats (more on these in later posts), this adventure is not about racing but short sails with lots of time to swim, snorkel, hike and read. Of course the crew will insist upon go fast sail trim.  We will be spending the majority of our 6 weeks in the British and US Virgin Islands and hope to get to a couple of the Spanish VIs  and St Croix depending on the weather and mood of the crew.

In March we will be joined by the Richmond Herlihys (Dan, Alice, Charles and Will) on a charter from Grenada to meet up with Andy’s gang  in the Grenadines.

We can be reached by email (tjher@comcast.net) that we will check when wifi is available.  If we are in sight of the USVI our ATT phones may work.