Every trip has one of those days!

We left leverick around 1 and as soon as we were out of the channel, we raised the sails. Downwind sailing our plan was to get to the dogs to snorkel and then to marina cay. We hadn't been under sail for an hour when matt looked back and said: "woah, dinghy!!" as our little guy floated away off into the sea. The painter (dinghy line) had broken we assumed so we did a man overboard style turn and got headed upwind but it was totally uncoordinated and unprepared for. We had four fishing lines out and as they were reelin in we were upwind without a chance of getting the sails down too! 8 people with 8 very important jobs, and apparently we had 9 very important jobs... Oops. I realized after the first go that even if we grabbed it with the boat hook we couldn't do anything but jump in it, and that became reality after we lost our boat hook on it! Joe does a WWE style jump and puts out about 10 feet and rockets into the dinghy, it was amazing... Hahah!
The boat hook now is slowly turning into an artificial reef, at the bottom... Hahha.

So the painter didn't break, it was the eyebolt on the dinghy, what? That thing is like 1/2 inch steel, snapped off, wow. We got the dinghy tied down to the supports that lift it and motored into marina cay, about an hour away.

I thought I did really good and that was the end of the issues, but we now have no boathook and can't pick up a mooring...let's anchor.

We got to marina cay and laid out our anchor, 30 feet of water takes a 1:5 so we need 150 feet of chain. Drop it and then set it by backing down on it. There's a job I was to have assigned, and with all the mess, I didn't get anyone to hold the painter and it got eaten by the prop, crap... Oh well, it's just rope and it pulled right off but thy dang dinghy is causing issues!!

We got the anchor set and then decided we dint like the wind an the waves and would rather be on a mooring ball. That also would help when we got our maintenance guy to fix the dinghy, he would be able to just take a taxi to us if we were in trellis, but as we were raising the anchor it backed up in the windlass. Right as we stopped raising the chain it fell OFF the windlass and proceeded to; at an alarming rate; POUR overboard... Joe and I looked at each other like "I'm not stopping it" and sheer terror went over our faces ha. I remembered, about 200 feet later, there was a chain lock, and I flipped it down... Crisis averted! We finally got the chain up and anchor secured and motored over. We used our gaff as a boathook and grabbed a ball in trellis.

Ashore we had an amazing meal at the trellis bay cyber cafe... If anyone goes to the BVI, you MUST visit here. Jeremy is the owner and he welcomed us with open arms! We talked about life and politics and cats, and anything else under the stars an the breeze. We lit a fire and all sat around it on the beach, this turned out to be an amazing night afterall!

The rest of the night was a wet wet dinghy ride and a party on the trampoline watching stars and enjoying the wind.

Were hanging at the cyber cafe now and waiting for Dan to come fix everything that's busted, and then were heading to the Baths.... And tonight will be in Cane Garden Bay!

Update on each crew:

Matt and Jackie are excited to be new aunt and uncles! They found out this morning!

Ben and Lindsey are having a great time. And ben is winning the fishing tournament as of now.

Joe and Erin are having a blast, although Erin is accident prone. Joe says we may need to put her down.

Patrick and Meagan are enjoying life and the beauty all around us!!

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