Moving On?

We've now been in the wonderful BVIs for three weeks and it is time to move on. Our plan is to sail to Road Town, Tortola, via a couple of the best dive sites around the Salt Cay marine reserve. In the capital, we need to buy fuel, visit DHL and the Royal BVI yacht club to collect our new purchases and clear out. Unfortunately, one of the purchases trapped in customs is our cruising guide for Turks & Caicos to the Bahamas. The whole of this area is massively shallow, with hundreds of square miles of banks less than 1m deep so we will have to plan our route somewhat carefully with an up to date guide.

Contrary winds over northern Caribbean

The other issue is the weather. After our last unforecast journey, we;ve decided to get porper forecasts bafore longer passages. Instead of the strong winds we battled last time, the forecast suggests rather too little wind in the next few days. The trades are blocked by a run of strong northerlies down over Florida and the Bahamas. Even if we meander across to Grand Turk, we may well find ourselves trapped there for a while.

We shall move to Road Town as planned and think about it.