Daily Life

A situation that has arisen in the USVI recently is disheartening, Three sailing yachts have been stolen in the past week and half from St. Thomas and St.Croix! A large Catamaran and two monohulls. I brings to mind a few questions, Where do you hide a sailing yacht that is 35 – 60 ft? Wouldn’t someone notice a boat moving around when so many are in lock down? I can’t seem to get a feel for how often this happens, but it appears this current rash is a surprise.

We have to remind ourselves that this is a working harbor and things like cargo ships and tankers come and go all of the time. On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week the island had its’ weekly natural gas delivery. The huge tanker ship above came through the harbor, there is dredged path for large ships. This path is roughly 30 yards from our anchorage, so it can be pretty startling to come up on deck to huge tanker so close at hand. The daily seaplane trips to St. Thomas are another routine that reminds us that other people are working. Then we hear the occasional rooster crowing throughout the day and remember we are in the islands!

Today is Dennis’ turn to have kitchen duty. He took a good part of the morning familiarizing himself with the equipment and provisions which he felt were rather meager until it was discovered that he was literally standing on food! The floorboards of Yantina are used for food storage, who’d a thought? Anyway, now we realize there is a little more here then meets the eye!