Lat/Lon: 18°43.5' N 64°23.1' W
Air Temp: 80°F Sea Temp: 80°F
Weather: Clear
Have I mentioned how much I love our new, fast, always-on internet connection?
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Anegada Sunset & Moonrise
Current Location: Pomato Pt., Anegada
Lat/Lon: 18°43.5' N 64°23.1' W
Air Temp: 80°F Sea Temp: 80°F
Weather: Clear
Have I mentioned how much I love our new, fast, always-on internet connection?
Lat/Lon: 18°43.5' N 64°23.1' W
Air Temp: 80°F Sea Temp: 80°F
Weather: Clear
Have I mentioned how much I love our new, fast, always-on internet connection?
First post from Anegada
Two pictures today: First up is the nifty handholds I made. These dangling knots, called a Monkey's Fist, not only provide a good handhold, they also prevent people from whacking their heads on the overhangs from which they hang!
One guest referred to them constantly as "Monkey's Balls", without even realizing how funny she sounded or why we were all laughing at her.
The most wonderful thing onboard is Tara's cooking. One might think that week after week I might get tired of it, but quite the opposite! Tara continues to astound me with her beautiful, delicious, and healthy gourmet cuisine. Check out this tortellini pasta salad with local organic tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, and prosciutto in a fresh herb "green goodness" sauce, and imported Italian grissini:
The observant reader might also notice the new tableware.
One guest referred to them constantly as "Monkey's Balls", without even realizing how funny she sounded or why we were all laughing at her.The most wonderful thing onboard is Tara's cooking. One might think that week after week I might get tired of it, but quite the opposite! Tara continues to astound me with her beautiful, delicious, and healthy gourmet cuisine. Check out this tortellini pasta salad with local organic tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, and prosciutto in a fresh herb "green goodness" sauce, and imported Italian grissini:
The observant reader might also notice the new tableware.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Real sailboats have no engines
Amanda, arguably the fastest wooden ketch under 40', at anchor in Road Harbor, before she sailed out for Antigua to race and perhaps lay proof to that claim. One reason she is so fast is she has no engine.
Capt. Kevin has taken her up and down the island chain from Venezuela up to Florida countless times, using only his 5HP dinghy engine to assist in docking. He uses a 2kw inverter generator to charge the lighting battery, and between the two he ends up buying about a gallon of gas a month! Amanda is in beautiful shape, and incidentally is also for sale.
Hypnautic, sitting pretty at the dock in Village Cay:
Capt. Kevin has taken her up and down the island chain from Venezuela up to Florida countless times, using only his 5HP dinghy engine to assist in docking. He uses a 2kw inverter generator to charge the lighting battery, and between the two he ends up buying about a gallon of gas a month! Amanda is in beautiful shape, and incidentally is also for sale.
Hypnautic, sitting pretty at the dock in Village Cay:
Monday, April 6, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Some Photos
Current Location: Cooper Saddle
Lat/Lon: 18°22.5' N 64°30.6' W
Air Temp: 78°F Sea Temp: 77°F
Weather: Partly Cloudy
Beautiful sunset last night, although some of the best clouds are seen looking away from the sun:
We saw some of the BVI Spring Regatta on our sail today, but the best boat must have been Formula 40' performance catamaran SOMA out of St. John, who added "Will Sail 4 Beer" to their mainsail:
We gave our pirate flag to our last guests and replaced it with a new "Brethren Pirates of Red Hook" flag. The Brethren Pirates are a dinner theater troupe in the USVI. Check it out:
And of course, be sure to pick up some Hypnautic booty at our web store!
Lat/Lon: 18°22.5' N 64°30.6' W
Air Temp: 78°F Sea Temp: 77°F
Weather: Partly Cloudy
Beautiful sunset last night, although some of the best clouds are seen looking away from the sun:
We saw some of the BVI Spring Regatta on our sail today, but the best boat must have been Formula 40' performance catamaran SOMA out of St. John, who added "Will Sail 4 Beer" to their mainsail:
We gave our pirate flag to our last guests and replaced it with a new "Brethren Pirates of Red Hook" flag. The Brethren Pirates are a dinner theater troupe in the USVI. Check it out:
And of course, be sure to pick up some Hypnautic booty at our web store!
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Swag and Booty
Be sure to check out our new "Swag and Booty" Online store. More items to be added... when we have time to design more-- if you have design suggestions please let us know :)
www.cafepress.com/hypnautic
(There is also a link on the right side of this page just under our official site link!
www.cafepress.com/hypnautic
(There is also a link on the right side of this page just under our official site link!
Hypnautic = H E A L T H Y!!
Hahah, Sasha and I have begun to notice how nicely my cooking is sticking to our bones. Oops. So we're on a bit of a diet these days. We tried my standby Cereal diet, but that left us hungry (and usually hungry = cranky). We abandoned that idea, ohh, about three days in. Instead we've decided to put the whole boat on a diet :) A few weeks ago a top piece of the cooler blew overboard and we were unable to recover it. So we got a new cooler-- one that is a little longer. Because of the added space there we were able to free up space in the refrigerators and pack them up with more greens and salad makings (yeah!). These are our baby steps away from rice and other starches and towards more fresh foods every day! Oh yeah, and I'm moving towards using whole wheat in my baking rather than just white flour-- so far we've done proper boiled bagels (just for sasha), and pizza dough!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Daze off!
Current Location: Road Harbor, Tortola
Lat/Lon: 18°25.5' N 64°36.9' W
Air Temp: 82°F Sea Temp: 80°F
Weather: Clear
So we have a few days off and don't want to pay to sit at the dock but didn't feel like going to some pristine, secluded, virgin anchorage. So we decided to sit in the middle of Road Harbor and watch the world go by:
We have a couple of friends who live on an old wooden ketch in the harbor when they are not running a private charter boat. They had been working for a big charter company when we met them and they gave us a lot of good advice as we were starting in the industry (mostly: "don't work here"). Rafted up to their boat is a beautiful black wooden schooner When and If, which used to be General Patton's yacht. She is very YAR:
Just outside the jetty are a couple of cruise ships. Wow these things are big. They were testing their anchor earlier this morning. They carry 12 cord of anchor chain, at least 1000 feet of rode. Each shackle must be a foot or two long.
Across the harbor is that big charter company I mentioned earlier. They just built a brand-new reception area with several restaurants, a spa, expanded hotel, etc. The place is empty. Looks like most of their fleet is sitting at the dock, rafted up several boats deep:
Many of these boats have been abandoned by their owners and the banks are simply storing them for lack of anything else to do with them. If you are looking to buy a boat, this summer might be the time!
Lat/Lon: 18°25.5' N 64°36.9' W
Air Temp: 82°F Sea Temp: 80°F
Weather: Clear
So we have a few days off and don't want to pay to sit at the dock but didn't feel like going to some pristine, secluded, virgin anchorage. So we decided to sit in the middle of Road Harbor and watch the world go by:
We have a couple of friends who live on an old wooden ketch in the harbor when they are not running a private charter boat. They had been working for a big charter company when we met them and they gave us a lot of good advice as we were starting in the industry (mostly: "don't work here"). Rafted up to their boat is a beautiful black wooden schooner When and If, which used to be General Patton's yacht. She is very YAR:
Just outside the jetty are a couple of cruise ships. Wow these things are big. They were testing their anchor earlier this morning. They carry 12 cord of anchor chain, at least 1000 feet of rode. Each shackle must be a foot or two long.
Across the harbor is that big charter company I mentioned earlier. They just built a brand-new reception area with several restaurants, a spa, expanded hotel, etc. The place is empty. Looks like most of their fleet is sitting at the dock, rafted up several boats deep:
Many of these boats have been abandoned by their owners and the banks are simply storing them for lack of anything else to do with them. If you are looking to buy a boat, this summer might be the time!
Monday, March 30, 2009
My new favorite appliance
So I broke down and got a proper internet solution for the yacht. My idea to use a cell phone tethered wirelessly via Bluetooth to provide internet to one of our laptops was ingenious but also slow and cumbersome to use.
Today, I purchased a Kyocera KR2 Mobile Router, which is a wireless router that takes a PCMCIA cellular network card! Plus, look at all the blinkylights! This brilliant device creates a WiFi hotspot anywhere it can pick up an cellular connection from CCT Boatphone (which completely covers the BVI) and all the computers onboard can share this always-on connection without tying up our telephone line. Better still, the EVDO connection is about 10x faster, which (among other things) means more blog posts for you!
Another benefit of this system is the ethernet-enabled hard drive which contains backups of all of our music and photos from our trips that is now available from any computer on the network!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Scrub Island Silt
We are currently anchored in Bluff Bay, south of Beef Island, near Hans Creek. The creek is a highly valuable ecological marine fishery and mangrove habitat for a multitude of marine, avian, and land-based species and is one of the most beautiful unspoiled areas in the BVI. It too has been slated for development into a 200 room hotel with megayacht marina and golf course. Please help stop this madness!!
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