St.Thomas touch and go

We had a successful touch and go at St.Thomas. ⛽✅, 💦✅, 🍞✅, 🍎✅ 🍔✅ 🍻✅. Also had some wifi and could catch up with our loved ones, emails, messages, posts and such. Arrived late afternoon and departed before sunrise the next day. It was good walking on solid earth again after twenty seven days at sea. St.Thomas is a vibrant little place. Colorful, noisy, good places to quench your thirst and hunger, and good markets for provisions. Lots of interesting characters around as well. American Yacht Harbor is a great marina to chill a while. A few hours sleep with the boat not moving was rejuvenating.

Next stop Fort Lauderdale, and we should be there this time next week. Planning to stop for a few days before our final destination, Annapolis. The weather and sea ahead is looking perfect for a perfect run to Ft.Lauderdale. Currently sailing on a smooth ocean with thirteen knots of true wind. We are flying our kite and cruising smoothly at six plus knots and expext conditions to prevail. With our folding props we are gliding silently and smoothly through the water.

On our port side, thirty miles away, Puerto Rico's night lights were visible in the distance earlier on tonight. I've visited on a few occasions and enjoyed every visit more than the time before. People here know how to live well. Excellent produce available too. We will soon bid Puerto Rico farewell and enter the waters across the Dominican Republic later today.

Above the waning moon is still shining fairly bright on her way to half moon in a day or two. A few clouds are also floating with us towards the Old Bahamas Channel that seperates Cuba and the Bahama Banks, a huge area of shallow waters. We often cut across the banks, but this time round we will optimize both wind and current through the channel. At the end of the channel we slip into the Gulf Stream, the wind curving up with us. This is sailing at its best.

Wishing you a most agreeable day.

Paul



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