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Looking for fellow TTOL'rs in May.

We will be on a Moorings 51' Powercat

May 6..... evening start @ Moorings
May 7..... Peter Island
May 8..... Cooper Island
May 9..... Leverick
May 10... Bitter End
May 11... Cane Garden
May 12... White Bay
May 13... White Bay
May 14... White Bay
May 15, 16, 17.... Sebastian's

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Headed down for a short trip with friends who have never been out of the country. 44PC from MM -

May 3 - sleep aboard
May 4 - Leverick
May 5 - Anegada
May 6 - JVD
May 7 - Scrub or Cooper
May 8 - Peter or Norman
May 9 - headed home

Order may change - depending on weather


rigirly

Sounds like a great trip. We did the following recently, or first trip and had a wonderful Capt to help guide us.

Cooper
Leverick
Anegada
JVD - Diamond Cay & Foxy's
Tortola WE - Sopers
Norman - the Bight

Really enjoyed that trip, thinking next trip would be like this...

Virgin Gorda, 2 nights in North Sound
Anegada, 2 nights at Settlers Point
JVD, 2 nights Diamond Cay and White Bay
Norman or maybe Peter.

I'm thinking we'll have more time to visit and tour these 3 islands that way. Anyone else ever do an itinerary like this?

Here is our tentative agenda:

May 10 - sleep aboard in Road Town
May 11 - Cooper
May 12 - Saba Rock
May 13 - Leverick
May 14 - Anegada
May 15 - Anegada
May 16 - Cane Garden
May 17 - Great Harbor, JVD
May 18 - Great Harbor, JVD
May 19 - Norman
May 20 - Party is over

My wife surprised me with a trip down May 7- 14. First time away without our kids. We will be on a Bavaria 33 from Captains Compass. We have zero itinerary so far.

My wife Kim and I are on the Sunsail Flotilla on a Sunsail 38. Tenative schedule
May 5 - Road Town
May 6 - Marina Cay
May 7 - VGYH
May 8 - North Sound
May 9- CGB
May 10 - Norman Island
May 11 - Road Town

TMM - Lagoon 450, Cool Change
My husband, me, our 31 yr old son and his wife who is celebrating her BIG 30.
Sleep aboard on May 11, returning May 19
No plans yet except for a night at Scrub. Hoping for a TTOL discount. We received one last May. Has anyone heard?

Chartering out of BVI Yacht charters with a Capt. on Sundowner
Tenative plan depending on weather

5/19 sleep aboard
5/20 Cooper
5/21 Bitter End..Saba
5/22 Leverick w a day of exploring via car...dinner at the pool
5/23 Anegada
5/24 JVD
5/25 Cane Garden Bay..rent a car explore
5/26 CAne Garden Bay...chill on the beach..Bay and boat
5/27.. return boat ...
Spend the night on St John
5/28 travel home

We will be on the Blind Squirrel which is a 48' Marine Max Powercat from May 8th to May 16th. Haven't started on the itinerary yet but we will keep our eyes open other TTOL members.

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Jolene

Jolene..... you have a PM.

Jolene...keep an eye out for us...we are there the same time
We are bringing 2 newbie couples also.

May 20 - June 6 ...Poker run weekend in the middle...otherwise no concrete plans ....hope to meet many of you

My family of 5 aboard S/V Orion, May 20th thru 28th. Look for the Virginia Tech (Go Hokies!) and University of Texas (Hook'em!) flags. Thanks! - Mark

3 couples, 2 of which have never been....it's our 4th since 2000 bareboat honeymoon.
Conch Charters on 42 Lipari

May 4 - sleep aboard
5 - Norman
6 - Trellis or Marina
7 - Leverick
8 - Leverick or Saba
9 - Anegada
10- Anegada
11 - Diamond Cay or Great Harbour
12 - Diamond Cay or Great Harbour
13 - (Sat Night) - Undecided, either stay local or head back to Norman
14 - Wheels up
We'll keep our eyes peeled ....if they're open. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/toast.gif" alt="" />

May 25-June 6 - Poker Run and Reef Song fun!!! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Clapping.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/circle.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Banana.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />

Hope to see you Bridget,,, as I said it before we need to do a dinghy crawl again

Bagsarepacked, will be on the lookout. You will be a day ahead of us! Sure don't know how you all do it, Arrival, on the boat for 7 nights, one day ashore and fly home... although flying from the "left coast" is longer, 8-9 days just isn't enough, even in de ilons. Looking forward to some serious R&R.
Jolene

We'll be aboard S/V TwinDancer (Lagoon 400S2) beginning around May 7 and will spend a couple of days or so in BVIs before heading down island to Saba or St Martin and beyond. Would love to catch up with anyone making passage southbound around that timeframe. (We'll probably end up in Guadaloupe before returning back to Tortola in late June - or at least that's the very rough plan at this point.)

May 24th for 1 week on a Footloose 3900 - probably the usual counter-clockwise route (incl. Anegada). Myself and wife, plus a bunch of college kids (so we'll be flying a load of Greek life flags). Join us for a beer!

May 5-13th aboard S/V Mercurey, a Lagoon 52. Third catamaran trip for 3 of us, 2nd trip for 2, and 4 newbies, plus our captain!
Rough plans:
May 5: Beef Island area
May 6: Slip at Leverick
May 7: North Sound
May 8: Anegada
May 9: West end Tortola area
May 10: Little Jost area
May 11: Great Harbour/White Bay
May 12: The Bight/Norman Island area
May 13: Headed home <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Mad.gif" alt="" />
Say hello! if you see us!!

May 20-28 on Lagoon 52. We will be flying a NC State flag. Crew of wife's cousin from Boston and her husband (777 pilots make good helmsman! ), our family of 4 with the 2 college girls and their newbie college roommates. Dad might need a leash. It's been great that our girls have grown up doing this and can now share with friends.

Iternary depends on time leaving out and weather, but already have more stops we want to do than time to enjoy. Snorkel, sail, relax, snorkel, sail, find a beach bar for the night.

White Bay, Great Harbour
Little Jost, BLine, Sandy Spit
CGB, off Guana, or Marina Cay
Baths and Savannah Bay (newbies must do)
North Sound probably 2 nights
Anegada?
Norman, Indians, Caves, Willy T

May 21- June 3rd. No Itinerary yet. Will be adding /changing crew at end of week one.

We are getting a 37' monohull from BVI charters. Ruby is her name.

May 14 - Sleep aboard at dock, Road Town.

May 20 Return boat to dock, Road Town.

May 15 - 19th. I have chartered twice but have never sailed down the north side of Tortola so I plan to do that. Will mostly play it by ear though.

Just me and my girl. She has been super busy stressed with a huge work project. We were going to go on a hiking/skiing tour but I decided she needs to just relax, and where better than the BVI's.

I am thinking about popping the question. (I see there is another thread for that)

Crank - does Ruby have shoreside A/C? If not...the BVIYC docks are pretty hot....just FYI....

Lee Bay would be a nice spot for that proposal...saw someone suggested that on the other thread. Kim (Sandsailsun) has some great pics of that anchorage in some of her trip reports - if she sees this, maybe she'll throw a few up for you!

Lcrich, looks like you will be on Cool Change the week before us. Take good care of her! Fourth trip down for us, third for the other couple we start the trip with. Prelim itinerary:
5/20 live aboard
5/21 Cooper
5/22 Saba
5/23 Anegada
5/24 Anegada
5/25 JVD
5/26 Norman
5/27 Trellis
Drop off 1st crew and pick up son & girlfriend
5/28 JVD
5/29 Norman
5/30 Cooper
We then spend three more days in a rental unit on Tortola. Son's girlfriend gets motion sick so we figured three days of easy sailing would be a great intro/test.

I don't think she has AC. Have spent the night on the docks at Moorings and that was pretty hot. Just poor planning on my part: I reserved the boat before looking onto flights. Flying into Tortola was either too much of a PITA or too pricey so we opted for an easy non stop from NY to St Thomas. We will get there too late to leave but can take our time provisioning, etc.

Crank - I was on the BVIYC site earlier today - she does have shoreside so you'll be comfy!

stlmco, We will!! Sounds like a fun time. We chartered Cool Change Oct, 2015 when she was brand new. Great boat, great owner!
Are you from St. Louis?

1st time Chartering and 1st BVI Trip!
Chartering a Moorings 393 PC for our honeymoon!

5/21 Fly to STT
Still unsure where to stay 5/21, 5/22 & 5/23 (researching, I’ll can ask for some suggestions in a new thread)
5/24 Sleep aboard
5/25 Norman / Bight (Trying to decide if this should be the 1st or last night)
5/26 Cooper
5/27 Leverick Bay (Do I need to reserve a slip? Would like to rent a car / jeep to see the baths and tour the island. They might be packed due to the poker run that is the next day)
5/28 Anegada
5/29
5/30 JVD
5/31
6/1 Turn in boat and stay somewhere in St Thomas for a flight back to reality on 6/2

Itinerary is a little rough. Not sure where to go after Anegada other than making sure to hit JVD for a night or two.

--
Ben

Cool! And I mean that literally.

Thanks Winterstale.

Lcrich, good guess. We spent 13 years there and are now in Orlando.

We were born and raised in STL but have been in the DFW area for 35 years so I guess we are considered Texans now!