Reunion Party

Amazing as it is, we are closing in on one year since our trip. Barbara and I remain committed to a reunion party. We had planned on a November 8th or 15th pool party……but we have come to the rare conclusion that we would be over committing ourselves. So this note is to prepare for a gathering in January or February of 2009! We will be in touch with you before then about a date that will work for all of us.

Pat and Barbara

AFTER CRUISE REVIEW AND PARTY

Hello from Pat and Barbara,

IT has been a little more than three months since we returned from the Virgin Islands. We believe it is time to get together and share our photos and stories from the trip. We know you maintain a full calendar. After a lot of discussion we decided to offer the following five days as a possible day to get together:

1. Saturday March 29
2. Saturday April 12
3. Sunday April 13
4. Saturday April 19
5. Sunday April 20

Barbara and I would like to host a dinner/party/photo review at our home on one of these dates. Our hope is to include everyone. Please respond to this message with the dates that work for you. Please include as many of the dates as you can in your order of preference. Once we receive a response from all couples we will announce the results.

Pat will have two DVDs with all our (known) photos. I have distributed a couple of disks some time ago. If you know of photos missing from the disk you got please let me know. I will be sure to include them on the disks I will make for this party. If Pat gets aggressive between now and the gathering we will have a photo montage of our trip.

We have so many great photos of every single one of you - - we will be able to be very discriminating.

We will have photos like this:

No photos like this:

No one need be embarrassed as Pat will endeavour to delete all worthless, non-complementary photos. (Except the really good ones!!)

We are excited about the get together.

PAT AND BARBARA

Final Financials

Hello Everyone! I'm sorry this has taken so long, but I was waiting for an overcharge from Saba Rock to be posted to our account before I e-mailed. As I feared, we went over budget... but only by $5.42 :-)

I'd like to take credit for coming so close the budget, but I know we were lucky and I'd rather be lucky than smart any day!

Gas ended up being $2,846.11 and we had $2,840.69 available in the account. I've attached a picture of the spreadsheet I made, but I know it's practically impossible to read, so if you want to see the actual spreadsheet, let me know and I'll e-mail it to you. My understanding is that we settled up (with cash from the group account) with everyone who forked over cash during the trip for group expenses, like ice, water, customs, etc. All that's left is to write checks to everyone who used their credit and debit cards for expenses while the trip account was locked (oh, and Rick and I used our credit card to pay for the gas so we could get air miles). Those checks are as follows, please let me know if I've made a grievous error:

Pat $2,195.64

Barbara $1,452.20

Greg/Darcy $ 192.84

Rick/Amy $2,932.11

So congratulations everyone, no one has to pay any extra!

Darcy & Greg - I don't have your address, please e-mail it to me (amyt@genejuarez.com) so I can mail you your check.

Thanks again for a great trip, take care!

Amy

Try clicking on the following link. It should give you a LIVE web cam that you can move with your mouse. This camera is at Saba Rock. You will see the boats, people and the weather LIVE!!

If you have a problem after double clicking the link, just go to http://www.sabarock.com/ and look for the web cam button and select 640X480. then select the presets to move the camera (1 through 8)


http://208.0.229.84/CgiStart?page=Single&Resolution=640x480&Quality=Standard&RPeriod=0&Size=STD&PresetOperation=Move&Language=0
You can give this link to people at home and then call them when you are at Saba Rock and wave to them and talk to them. This is a full motion video camera.

Have fun, see you in the Islands!

Pat

LAST MEETING, IT'S TIME TO CRUISE!!!

Hello to all!

Barbara and I are hosting the meeting and dinner tonight.

For those of you who have not been to our house and need directions we live at 29211 7th Place South in Federal Way. If you get off of I-5 at the 320th Street exit in Federal Way take 320th West to Highway 99. Highway 99 is Pacific Highway South. Go north on PHS about 2 miles to the construction zone. At the first stop light in the construction zone turn left onto Dash Point Road. At the first traffic light on DPR turn right onto 11th Avenue South. Go down the hill until you reach 293rd Street. Turn left and go to the end of the street. Look across the street and our house is to your right with a flat roof and a bunch of cars.

Barbara has planned a big turkey dinner since we won’t get one this year. (I’m having the duck at Craig and Sally’s!).

I’ve been told 2 hours is way too much time for a meeting. Fine. We can get through all our plans in less than one hour if everyone gets here by six o’clock and we start right in. Then we can have dinner at seven.

Please have a clear head for at least the first hour because the information we need to cover is important.

I am asking Patti and Lysa from their respective boats to fill out our customs documents tonight. This will save us the time and hassle of doing this at the dock with VIP.

To our cooks, please bring or be ready to create a duty schedule for the entire cruise assigning the cooking and cleaning duty for each meal period we will have. There will be 11 dinner periods. We will only make 4 dinners. Those dinners should be cleaned up by the couples that make the meal, so that leaves 7 evening cleanings when we won’t be making a meal. One evening per cruiser makes sense to me…easy. 11 lunches. Lunch will require the most effort. Some days we will have hamburgers some days we will have cold sandwiches and probably other things. This person should clean the kitchen after everyone is through with lunch around 2:00 PM? 11 breakfast periods. This person should setup the coffee maker the night before and clean the kitchen after everyone is through getting whatever they want for breakfast. Say, clean the kitchen by 10:30 in the morning?. We might want to have two or three mornings with a big (cooked) breakfast. This might be a fun get together time on some of the mornings we will not be moving the boat. Just a few of my thoughts on the subject. Overall, if properly organized and cooperation is maximized, this potential source of irritation will be no problem.

Barbara and I have got the Margarita and Mai Tai machine cranked up so be ready for a good time!

See you tonight.

Pat and Barbara

ps. If anyone wants to use our tanning bed while you are here, come early, or stay late and feel free.

Hello to all!

Barbara and I are hosting the meeting and dinner tonight.

For those of you who have not been to our house and need directions we live at 29211 7th Place South in Federal Way. If you get off of I-5 at the 320th Street exit in Federal Way take 320th West to Highway 99. Highway 99 is Pacific Highway South. Go north on PHS about 2 miles to the construction zone. At the first stop light in the construction zone turn left onto Dash Point Road. At the first traffic light on DPR turn right onto 11th Avenue South. Go down the hill until you reach 293rd Street. Turn left and go to the end of the street. Look across the street and our house is to your right with a flat roof and a bunch of cars.

Barbara has planned a big turkey dinner since we won’t get one this year. (I’m having the duck at Craig and Sally’s!).

I’ve been told 2 hours is way too much time for a meeting. Fine. We can get through all our plans in less than one hour if everyone gets here by six o’clock and we start right in. Then we can have dinner at seven.

Please have a clear head for at least the first hour because the information we need to cover is important.

I am asking Patti and Lysa from their respective boats to fill out our customs documents tonight. This will save us the time and hassle of doing this at the dock with VIP.

To our cooks, please bring or be ready to create a duty schedule for the entire cruise assigning the cooking and cleaning duty for each meal period we will have. There will be 11 dinner periods. We will only make 4 dinners. Those dinners should be cleaned up by the couples that make the meal, so that leaves 7 evening cleanings when we won’t be making a meal. One evening per cruiser makes sense to me…easy. 11 lunches. Lunch will require the most effort. Some days we will have hamburgers some days we will have cold sandwiches and probably other things. This person should clean the kitchen after everyone is through with lunch around 2:00 PM? 11 breakfast periods. This person should setup the coffee maker the night before and clean the kitchen after everyone is through getting whatever they want for breakfast. Say, clean the kitchen by 10:30 in the morning?. We might want to have two or three mornings with a big (cooked) breakfast. This might be a fun get together time on some of the mornings we will not be moving the boat. Just a few of my thoughts on the subject. Overall, if properly organized and cooperation is maximized, this potential source of irritation will be no problem.

Barbara and I have got the Margarita and Mai Tai machine cranked up so be ready for a good time!

See you tonight.

Pat and Barbara

IT'S MEASURED IN DAYS NOT WEEKS!!

Well it is almost time! I feel compelled to share my enthusiasm. I admit when I was in the BVI last week I thought that I might be loosing some of my excitement about our big trip. Hey, I was there it was great but now I've seen that, been there, done it, you know? NOT TRUE!!! On Monday, the day after I got home I was ready to go right back.

Here are some thoughts leading up to this Saturdays final gathering......

Please come ready to seriously listen and participate in the meeting. We have a lot of info to cover. I want to get through it as fast as possible.

Please make two or three copies of your Passport and bring a copy to the meeting on Saturday. You should leave one at home in case anyone at home needs the info or you loose your Passport. This copy will assist you in replacing a lost Passport.

I will be asking Patti to prepare BVI customs documents for us on Saturday. This will save us time in the Islands.

At the meeting I will be asking our cooks for each of the boats to have a schedule prepared for the cooking and cleaning duty day by day and meal by meal. There should be one person assigned to prepare and clean up after each meal. Additionally we should finalize our provisioning list. We will start buying the items on the list five days after the meeting!

Amy will give a final review of our finances.

I received a call from Nori today. She said all documents are in order and they are ready for us to arrive. We will be the first charter of the season for one of the boats and the second for the other.

Rick and I have prepared a FM transmitter for each boat. We will use these to broadcast our I-Pods etc. through out our boat and to the other boat when we are close enough. FUN!

If you have a 21 channel GMRS radio please bring it to the meeting. It would be nice to confirm the compatibility of our radios here.

The meeting is at 6:00 PM sharp on Saturday. I will start going through your Cruise Book as soon as everybody is here. Please allow two hours for info plus a little extra for the food and drink. I won't be talking for the whole two hours, it is just that when we meet the details seem to come out a little slower.

Barbara and I look forward to this meeting and our time together on Saturday. You are a special group of people and we are thankful for the privilege to make this journey with you.

See you Saturday!

Pat

TWO WEEKS TO GO !!!

Last chance to take off those final 3 or 4 pounds!! In just two weeks from tomorrow Barbara, Rick and I (Pat) depart for our adventure.

As most of you know I just returned from a one week research trip to the Virgin Islands. I learned a lot that will make our trip more fun and efficient. We won’t waste time with a steep learning curve. But most of all I learned that you don’t go away for a week on a boat trip and not call home for five days. I am sorry and apologize to each of you who were concerned for my well being. As Barbara said to me I was just “being Pat”. However in this case that is not good enough and I will not let this happen again. Promise.

On the topic of our trip, I obtained a big stack of promotional material from both the USVI’s and the BVI’s. I will share this along with our cruise manual at our final meeting on the weekend before our departure.

Some information I do want to share before the meeting is as follows:

I found polyester “athletic” shirts to be most comfortable because they stay dry and keep you cool. I know the girls are shooting for style, but perhaps you could incorporate some open knit polyester type clothes in your wardrobe. Do not even think of bringing a sweater or light jacket for those cool nights. There won’t be any. It is very humid in the morning around 80 to 85 degrees until the sun heats the air about 5 degrees and “burns off” some of the humidity. The sun goes down before 6:00 PM. While it is cooler after sunset the humidity comes back up making you less comfortable than you might otherwise be with the temperature drop.

While the biting bugs were ever present my use of “OFF” in 30% Deet form kept me safe. I did see one 20 ish girl that had hundreds of bites swollen to about the size of a quarter all over her body. Everybody will get a few bites, just remember to use Deet. Most beach bars and restaurants have a bottle of “OFF” behind the counter for customer use. I will bring two cans plus wipes.

I want to reiterate from earlier meetings a request to keep our meal plans as simple and easy as possible. I can guarantee to you we will have most dinners on shore. Most breakfasts will be ad hock. First one up in the morning turns on the coffee and then you are on your own. Maybe one or two big pancakes and eggs type of breakfasts. Lunch will be a free flowing affair.
If you swim as much as I do then wear your dry (salty) suit all day you will probably get the swimsuit rash I did. Taking off my suit when I get out of the water and applying an antibiotic salve fixed me right up. My rash is gone. I can prove it if necessary.

On a similar note, I sprayed my toes after each shower with Tinactin. I get itchy feet when I visit warm places.

There is a new and very useful type of sunscreen I highly recommend. I will show some at the last meeting.

I was on one of the boats we will be cruising. The other one was in charter last week. The 2 ½ + years since Lysa, Todd, Barbara and I had seen them have taken their toll on the boats and they have lost their new shine. I believe we will still have all the same great fun and functionality we have planned on.

Some notes about our itinerary. There are two basic ways to create a BVI itinerary. They are clockwise (our plan) and counterclockwise. The prevailing winds will determine for us which of the two directions we chose. In the Virgin Islands the trade winds almost always blow from the East. The wind can be South East or North East. If you look at the charts you will see that a North East wind (the most common) would not effect our anchorages on Jost. This would allow for a clockwise start. We cannot know until the day we depart which direction we will go. We do know with some certainty the anchorages of our choice.

In our Caribbean Adventure Book I will provide each couple at the last meeting I will list our proposed destinations and itinerary. Please remember we will always keep our eye on the weather and make adjustments as needed.

After hearing from Scott about using his Verizon phone in the VI’s I called the Verizon service center. I asked to sign up for “I dial” service (international dialing). I just got my cell phone bill from the first days of my trip the VI’s. The .69 per minute rate plus $3.99 per month for “I Dialing” in the USVI’s was charged as promised. I left my charger behind on my boat trip so I did not get to use my cell phone in the BVI’s. I did see others using their phones. The locals don’t get off their phones to rent you a motel room! So I am reasonably certain the $1.29 per minute plus long distance chargers will apply in the BVI’s. Not a hot deal but at least you will be able to make and receive calls in most of the places we will be. This is a tremendous improvement from just six months ago. Recommendation: If you wish to bring your cell phone call your supplier, ask to enable international dialing, ask if your phone will work in the USVI’s and the BVI’s. If they say it will work ask how much the minute rates are? Then use your phone sparingly. If you have Verizon you will get the .69 per minute in the USVI’s and 1.29 in the BVI’s and home rate in Puerto Rico. Cingular (AT&T) works in a similar fashion I am told.


Just some random thoughts as Barbara and I make our final preparations for the trip. See you soon.

A Fun Spot

Here is a link you may want to try.

http://www.pussers.com/redbox

Here is the trick. When you are in the BVI's at Marina Cay on the dock you can have someone at home get on the internet and see you on the dock. Is this cool or what?

Check out the gallery.

Pat

CELL PHONE IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS

I have purchased an AT&T "Go" phone for use on our trip. The cost of $28 plus purchased time is very low in my experience. After extensive research I have found that this phone is the best solution to our communications challenge. Verizon phones (most of us have) will work on a limited basis in the USVI. I do not know if T-Mobile or others work at all. I am told to expect a Verizon phone will not work in the BVI's. The only phone that works with any degree of coverage and reasonable cost is a Cingular or AT&T phone. The local phone company in the BVI's is CCT. They are extremely expensive ($200+ to purchase a phone + up to $4 a minute to the states) to use on a short term basis, and we don't want a one year contract.



This AT&T phone we now have will work on the local BVI CCT phone system. Our AT&T phone will cost $1 each day it is used + $0.10 a minute to use in the states and the USVIs. I am told by AT&T if we purchase the $3.99 per month "World Traveler" upgrade the cost of use in the BVI's will be $1.99 per minute instead of the normal $3.49 per minute. Still expensive but we can communicate if we need to. This phone is a "pay as you go" phone. We will purchase a limited amount of "time" to use the phone. We can buy more any time we wish. We cannot get a "big surprise" bill as we will know how much credit is left on the phone account after each use.



I will have good knowledge of the coverage the phone receives after my trip next week. I will share this with you upon my return.



You may wish to give this phone number to people at home that may wish to call you while you are gone. Those needing to get in touch with you should also have the number at VIP Charters. The new cell phone # is 206-304-3150. The number for VIP is 370-774-9224. If we cannot be reached by our cell phone, VIP will be able to reach us and relay a message to call someone.

Pat

Takin' One For the Team

Well my shipmate friends, I will be traveling to the Virgin Islands next Friday the 12th of October to obtain as much information about our trip as I can. I will be meeting with our people at VIP and touring the boats we will be chartering.
I have chartered a 25 foot runabout to tour the BVI'S the week of the 15th. I will travel to each destination we have on our trip. I will be discussing our itinerary with "Bob" the Captain at VIP that will give us our chart briefing before our charter. I called Bob yesterday. When I told him I would be visiting him the week of the 15th of October he told me he would take some time with me to help us improve our itinerary. He indicated there are places (off the beaten path) that he would recommend that would amaze us. I will meet with people at the locations we plan to visit. People such as the dive operators, the little beach bars operators and the marina people. I will work to establish an itinerary that will give us a great sunset view from our boats as many nights as possible. This trip I am taking will give us the ability to make better quality decisions about our itinerary. I hope to minimize nonproductive time and maximize time at play. From the discussions I have had this week with people in the Virgin Islands I have already learned how we can make our trip better. I am told we should expect to cruise (motor to our next location) for one or two hours at most on any given day. Bob from VIP told me he has boated in the San Juans in the past and boating in the Virgin Islands is very different. He tells me the focus of each day will be the destination and NOT the journey. I want to assure you I will be working hard to learn how to create the absolute best trip for all of us. In short I will be takin' one for the team next week learning from the people who live there and captain charter boats for a living. I don't mean to be melancholy about the burden I will bear for the group but I do ask you to keep me in your prayers for the price I will pay being in the islands for a week. ....... OK I'm having a great time and I wish you were here. WOW!!! Less than five weeks and we are on the trip of our lives. Words cannot express the excitement and anticipation I have for our trip. I hope to infect you with my enthusiasm for the adventure. GET READY TO HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE.

Oh....and by the way Todd, I got my Speedo.

Pat

Duty Assignments and odds and ends

Because of our many discussions in the past I have rather confusing notes on duty assignments. Would you please email me your understanding of your individual duty assignment? I will have this in a summary format for everyone on Sunday. Currently I have:

Three Sheets

Skipper: Rick
First Mate: Jerry
Coxswain: Scott
Chef: Jacque/Kay
Special Sea & Anchor Duty: Dale/Jerry
Master @ Arms: Patti
Engineer: Dale
Purser (both boats): Amy


The Love Boat

Skipper: Pat
First Mate: Darcy
Coxswain: Ed
Chef: None
Special Sea & Anchor Duty: Greg/ Darcy
Master @ Arms: Andrea
Engineer: Greg
Purser (both boats): Amy


We can finalize our food and beverage preferences at the meeting. I would suggest our cooks set up a place at Patti and Scott's where we can go to you and make our last requests for your inclusion in your provisioning order.

Amy has made the final payment for the boats as of 12:30 this afternoon. Nori @ VIP has received our manifest. Rick and I are sending a signed copy of our charter agreement today.

With these actions all that is left for us to do with VIP is show up and get our charter checkout and depart.

It is my understanding all travel arrangements have been made and rechecked.

I will be confirming our rental pickup we are using for all transportation and provisioning and hotel reservations for the night of the 22nd of November for eight rooms.


Pat

Inclusion in Google Groups

Hi everybody.
I am looking forward to our next meeting. It is my understanding we will be meeting at Patti and Scott's home on this coming Sunday.

Today I am asking Amy to make the final payment to VIP for our boats. Barbara, Rick and I will be getting on a plane to Saint Thomas in about 90 days to start our trip. WOW! I am excited!

I have a request in to the Marriott in ST for a one night Thanksgiving hotel reservation. I hope to receive a call back today. I will have a room for everyone for that night one way or another by the time of the meeting.

I want to make sure everyone is receiving our group messages. These messages do not normally post to the blog. I intend to post this one. Please send me a little message back just to let me know you have received this Caribbean-Cruisers-2007@GoogleGroups.com message.

Skipper Pat

but you can call me Skippy

Update on Money Matters

Hello Everyone! I hope you've all been (and still are) enjoying the beautiful weather and all the fun summer has to offer! All July payments (except for Pat & Barbara who will deposit when they get back from vacation this weekend) have been deposited to the account, the balance of which is $19,051.32. The final payment for the boats is about $16,800, so we're good there.
To date everyone has paid $3,300 of the $4,185 for the trip (per couple), which means that there will need to be another payment of $885 per couple by the time we depart. Since this is the money that we will use for provisioning, gas, water, etc. I don't have a particular preference as to when it gets deposited. If people would like to go ahead and write a check for the remaining balance at the meeting next weekend to get their account all squared away, then that's fine or we can have a deposit of $500 at the next meeting and another $385 due before we depart.
Also, just to put a bug in your ear, we had discussed giving a $100 credit to those couples who would be staying at a hotel Saturday night instead of sleeping aboard the one boat we have for that night. I think that everyone had agreed this was fair, so at the next meeting we'll need to confirm which couples those were so that I can adjust the amounts still owing on their account accordingly. If any one has any questions, please let me know.
See you all on the 12th!
Take Care,
Amy

TIME TO RECHECK YOUR AIR RESERVATIONS ! !

Hello, long time no blog.

I wanted to share a note about our air booking. Rick Lester discovered recently that Delta had canceled the second leg of our flight from Seattle to Saint Thomas. Delta reduced their frequency from 7 flights a week to only 3 or 4. This gave Barbara, Rick and me a 28 hour layover in Atlanta !! After a little over an hour on the phone I got Barbara and myself rescheduled through Newark with almost the same departure and arrival times. After this experience I thought it prudent to give you a "heads up" about this situation. If you find any changes in your booking please post it on the BLOG.


Thanks

O, by the way, it's less than FIVE months to the cruise!!


PAT

Account Balance Update

JOST VAN DYKE

BITTER END YACHT CLUB

BUBBLY POOL

SAINT JOHN

THE BATHS

I CAN'T STOP ! !

VIDEO FROM THE ISLANDS

A BIT OF A VISUAL OF OUR TRIP

http://www.vipyachts.net/PDF/14day_itinerary.pdf

GUEST MANIFEST Preparation

To comply with US Coast Guard Manifest Requirements, VIP Yacht will need the following information for each crew member:
First and Last Name
Date of Birth
Citizenship
Address (street, city, zip,)
Telephone
Email
Airline and Flight Number
Arrival Date and Time

VIP Charters will also use this information to prepare in advance the necessary information for B.V.I Customs and Immigration.

Please email the above information to me at panderson3@wavecable.com. I will complete the manifest and provide a copy for everyone at the next meeting in May.

Also at the next meeting, please bring additional information such as passport number and expiration date, emergency contact information, primary physician and number, and any special medical information you think we might need to know should an emergency occur. This information is for our use only.

TIP: Make two photocopies of your passport identification page. Leave one copy at home. Carry the other with you in a separate place from your passport (i.e. I could keep photocopies all together with manifest information). This will facilitate replacement if your passport is lost or stolen.

Thanks. Looking forward to getting together again.

CHARTER SLIDESHOW

Here is a link to a slide show about chartering a sailing bare boat in the BVI's. I am sure our experience on a powerboat will be similar.

http://www.ed-hamilton.com/A/BB/1.BBslides.html

After you click on the link and the picture of the American Airlines airplane pops up just single click on the "auto play" or "next" buttons.


Pat

GREAT THIRD MEETING ! !

Thanks Greg and Darcy.

Great folks, great food, great home and great time. Thanks for the pizza, it was .... well, Great !

We continue to move forward with each meeting. I will post the results of our last meeting in the next few days. This will be done to confirm all the things we agreed to and give a chance for correction if any misunderstandings exist.

We were excited to hear from Ed and Andrea about the possibility they might be able to join us for the full cruise. That would be wonderful.

Along with the results from our meeting I will work with Todd and Rick to tighten up our itinerary. I will try to find a way to post a map that will be useful. If one cannot be posted I will print one and hand it out by our next meeting. I will post a list of all possible activities at each of our planned stops along our cruise. The complete list of desired activities as I understand it is:

• Sightseeing
• Shopping
• Cruising
• Swimming
• Fishing
• Taking pictures / video
• Scuba Diving
• Snorkeling
• Drinking adult beverages
• Enjoy each others company
• Eating / on the boat or in some interesting restaurants
• Hanging out in funky beach bars
• Kayaking
• Gittin drunk with people we don't know
• Rent a sailboat
• Quiet time / perhaps reading
• Get some rays / hang out on some beautiful beaches
• Gittin drunk with people we do know
• Dancing / enjoying music
• Gittin drunk alone
• Did I mention drinking?

Well, if I left out your desired activity, please leave a comment and we will be sure to add it into the mix.

More later.

Pat

MORE GREAT RESOURCES

Here are some links that will keep you busy and excited about our adventure. We will be sharing more in the future.

This one has many interesting clickable links:
http://angelinacat.com/BVILINKS.htm

Ditto:
http://vicharteryachts.com/usvi/US_Virgin_Islands_map.html


I have been looking for a quality satellite view of the Virgin Islands for a few weeks. I finally found what I think is the best view. If you look close enough you can find both of our Tarquin 59's in their port at Compass Point Marina. UNBELIEVABLE ! ! (I will show you how just call me). Also you can find Bubbly (Champagne) Pool, Sandy Cay (Spit), Saba Rock, Our Cost U Less Grocery where we will buy our provisions WOW ! !
http://www.flashearth.com/

Pat


PS:http://www.normanisland.com/info.htm
http://www.williamthornton.com/

DUTIES

I admit to taking a little license with the idea of Co-Cook. Perhaps this is a bad idea. My thought was that two people could share the scheduling of cooking and cleaning assignments and meal planning and provisioning. I envision this as a larger job than the other duties and we have extra (unassigned) cruisers to involve. BUT I see that there can be problems with this idea. I have no doubt that we need at least one cook on each boat. Perhaps we can table this until our next meeting (the 18th of March). I will add the discussion of duty assignments to our itinerary at the nest meeting.

Pat

Map?

Being older than most on the cruise (except Barbara) would it be possible to see a map of all our stops at our next meeting....a visual of what we're doing would be great. Looking forward to the next meeting. Is any one besides us having trouble getting into the blog? It seems fussy at times letting me in......usually says password and name does not match....