Grenada to the Virgin Islands

We arrived today at Spanish Town, Virgin Gorda, after a 4 day passage from Grenada this week.  We had been waiting for a good weather window to make the crossing of the Caribbean, and we departed Tuesday with a favorable forecast of ENE winds of about 20 knots, diminishing over the week. 

Our first night was a little rough since the waves from last weeks winds were still present, and the winds were still diminishing a bit from 20-25 down to 15-20, so we got pretty wet with the weather on the beam the whole trip.  

However the rest of the trip was nice, still a bit rolly and rough, but the winds were for the most part steady and squall-free, so we made excellent time, arriving 12 hours sooner than we anticipated.  So we just cleared customs in the British Virgin Islands and are drying out all our clothes and rain gear from the wet crossing, before we head out for more adventuring tomorrow.  

It was pretty strange making the 4 day crossing…we didn't see any of the islands, but we were only about 100 miles offshore from all of the islands we visited in 2013 on our way south…we covered in 4 days what it took us 5 months to do last year!  However its great to be back in the BVI…we have a week to make it to Puerto Rico for our Coast Guard physicals, so we'll check out some of our favorite spots in the British, US and Spanish Virgin Islands on our way west.