Bound to Please

"Bound to Please", that's the name of our boat.  So far she's living up to her name and taking good care of us.

Someone tell my mom I haven't drowned her grandsons yet.  (She doesn't read anything I write, so one of you needs to step up to the plate here.)

It's not, apparently, for lack of trying.  First there's the "Christmas winds" which start around Christmas, and supposedly stop mid January, but they didn't get the note this year.  The first day we really sailed upwind, (last Tue, into Little Harbor on Peter Island) we were close hauled and laying her flat.  Steve and I smiled those fake smiles parents get as we pretended to think this was the height of fun.

"Wow!"  "Ride 'em cowboy!  Eh, boys?"  "Boys?"  The boys had gone below deck where they threatened to try walking on the walls of the boat, she was heeled so far over.  After we spent a couple of relaxed days in Little Harbor we sailed back to Road Town.  This time with a double reefed main and only half unfurled head sail.  What a nice difference!  

The night before Little Harbor we were on a mooring bouy at Kelly Cove at Norman Island.  We motored early Tue morning to get a temporary bouy at The Indians where there is some excellent snorkeling.  Again, the Christmas winds made themselves known.  It was beautiful, but brisk (being still morning) and the wind and chop made the swim ... interesting...  Robert decided he needed a PFD "island" while he snorkeled.

We've since had a gorgeous day with sunshine and trade winds.  We spent the day at the Baths on Virgin Gorda.  There's a place we're coming back to!