
We decide to postpone the days activities til our next trip, and spend the morning sailing to our next destination, Marina Cay. I wanted to spend more time hiking up on Biras Hill, out to Jack and Burns Point, and then go spend a few hours snorkeling in Eustatia Sound.

This Beneteau 50 is well equipped for its 4 cabins, and with just two couple on board, we've only emptied one of the three water tanks. Clearly, this calls for longer showers from here on out.

Mainsail raised, we sailed around Moskito Rock and into Sir Francis Drake Channel, following in the footsteps - er - wake, of so many famous pirates. (Though technically, Sir Francis Drake was a privateer, not a pirate.)
Our dinghy deserves special mention here. We named her Herbie, after the Disney movie car with a mind of its own. Before we sailed each day we tipped the outboard up so the propeller wouldn't drag. However when we arrived at Saba Rock and things quieted down near the mooring, the outboard had tipped back during our sail, and we could hear the outboard sputtering along as if the dinghy, with a mind of her own, had started her own outboard. It turned out that the slight current near Saba Rock was spinning the propeller just enough to turn the engine over, a lot like push-starting a car. So we named her Herbie. This explanation calmed the conspiracy theorists on board. Still, I kept a close eye on Herbie all the same. Last thing I needed was for Herbie the Dinghy to take off on her own.
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